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>7th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals
>Health promotion and quality: challenges and opportuitities for health
>promoting hospitals
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>Please find enclosed copies of the Draft Programme for the above-mentioned
>Conference to be held on April 21- 23, 1999 in Swansea, Wales. This
>Conference is of relevance to all who encourage hospitals to become health
>promoting organisations as part of an overall focus on achieving health
>impronrement. Previous conferences have attracted delegates from all over
>the world.
>
>The aim is to further strengthen the quality of hospitals as health
>promoting organisations, by the exchange of knowledge and experience. In
>addition to the plenary sessions, the programme will offer a wide range of
>parallel sessions and a number of workshops, together with an exhibition.
>
>
>Additional copies of the Draft Programme, can be obtained from the
>Conference Office (tel 01222 681246 or fax 01222 755813).
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>Scope and Purpose : Health Promoting Hospitals
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>Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) combines a vision, a concept and a set of
>strategies for hospital development. It applies health promotion as
>developed in the Ottawa Charter (1986) to the hospital as core institution
>of the modern health care systern. We want te increase access te hospital
>resources for the Health Promotion movement.
>We also want to offer the developmental potential of health promotion to
>hospitals.
>A HPH targets not only the health of patients, staff and population in the
>local community, but also the "health" of the hospital as a sustainable
>organisation, capable of learning and adapting to changing environments in
>order te maximise health gain.
>HPH is part of the settings approach to health promotion that combines a
>wide variety of methods and techniques:
>
>-classical approaches to holistic health care (systematic consideration of
>social and mental dimensions, prevention and rehabilitation,
>comprehensiveness and continuity of care)
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>-a focus not only on treatment of illness, but also on promotion of positive
>health
>
>-systematic empowerment of patients as co-producers of healing and recovery
>and producers of their health
>
>-traditional and modern concepts for developing a healthy workplace
>
>-traditional and modern concepts for developing hospitals into physical
>environments which successfully control health risks and promote positive
>health
>
>-concepts and techniques including organisational development, project
>management and other strategies for the enhancement of structure, process
>and outcomes for promoting health.
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>The International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals
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>In 1990, WHO-Regional Office for Europe initiated the Health Promoting
>Hospitals Network. Several approaches have been used to develop the network:
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>-development of concepts and strategies
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>-identification of models of good practice
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>-development of model projects (the Vienna Model Project "Health and
>Hospital" 1989-1996, the European Pilot Hospital Project 1993-1997)
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>-setting up national and regional networks and communication structures in
>many countries and regions.
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>-Since 1993, a twice-yearly HPH-newsletter has been issued, and annual
>International Conferences on HPH have been organised. See the HPH-website
>homepage http://www.univie.ac.at/hph/
>
>The annual International Conferences have proven valuable for many groups of
>participants including medical and nursing staff; hospital managers; health
>promotion professionals; evaluators; scientists and organisational
>developrnent consultants; health politicians and administrators interested
>in HPH Projects.
>Participants learn about the latest developments of concepts and strategies;
>hear and read about models of good and best practice, and establish contact
>with experts and activists from over 30 countries interested and experienced
>in developing hospitals as health promoting organisations.
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>HPH and Quality
>
>For the 7th International Conference, the organisers and the Scientific
>Committee have decided to highlight, as a central theme, the relationship
>between the quality movement in health care and HPH.
>
>Both of these hospital reform strategies have many goals, concepts, methods
>and techniques in common.
>They share a focus on participation; a developmental approach; a similar
>orientation toward structures, processes and outcomes; and understanding
>outcomes as a product of structural and process characteristics.
>However, there is still a significant number of learning opportunities
>between the two. We expect the Conference to provide answers on the
>following questions:
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>-What can HPH learn from the Quality Movement? Which effective and
>innovative strategies developed under headings such as "European Quality
>Award", "Continuous Quality Improvement" etc. should become a standard for
>HPH projects?
>
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>-What could be the added value of health promotion to Quality strategies? We
>will discuss issues such as the value of systematically addressing health as
>an outcome of health care services; the importance of addressing not only
>health of hospital patients, but also of staff and the population in the
>community served by the hospital; the implications of the development of the
>patient's role as an active co-producer of healing and recuperation and a
>producer of her/his health.
>
>The topic of Health Promotion and Quality will be included in keynote
>lectures (followed by discussion groups); plenary presentations; a panel
>discussion; a workshop; and presentations in parallel and poster sessions.
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>HPH and Healthy Ageing
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>1999 is the WHO year of the Elderly and there are several reasons why it is
>very important for hospitals to consider what impact the increasing number
>of older persons in most countries will have for them. The elderly already
>make up a very high proportion of the total number of hospital patients. It
>is very likely that this proportion is going to increase further in the next
>30 years as the population ages.
>
>Old age is often associated with chronic diseases; the need for
>comprehensive and continuons care, and with terminal illness etc. These
>problems consume a large proportion of health care resources, raising many
>questions concerning health gain, effectivenesss and value for money. The
>increasing frequency with which these problems need to be confronted
>suggests that there is a need for reconsideration of many aspects of
>hospital operation. For example:
>a) How to design adequate medical and nursing intervention schemes for the
>elderly?
>b) Which aims and objectives should be highlighted?
>c) How can strategies be adapted to specific needs and requirements of older
>people?
>d) How can comprehensiveness and continuity of care be safeguarded?
>e) What can hospitals contribute to empower older people to maximise their
>health potential?
>f) How can physical environment, and hospital processes be designed to make
>them less risky for the elderly and promote their positive health?
>g)   How can hospitals co-operate with other parts of the health care
>system; professional systems of
>social care and social support; and informal helpers to maximise the health
>gain of their interventions?:
>For this topic, two keynote lectures (followed by discussion groups), a
>workshop, presentations in parallel  and poster sessions are planned.
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>Other Topics
>
>In addition to the two main topics, the Conference will continue work on
>Health Promotion in and by Psychiatric Hospitals initiated at the 6th
>Conference in Darmstadt.
>There will also be workshops, parallel paper sessions and a poster session
>addressing a wider range of conceptual issues, models of good practice and
>their evaluation in the four action areas of HPH:
>
>a) Health promotion for hospital patients
>b) Health promotion for hospital staff
>c) HPH in their communities
>d) Creating Healthy Hospital Organisations
>
>Finally, the Conference is again going to address specific theoretical and
>methodological aspects of HPH.
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>For more information, contact:
>Mrs Brenda Stephens
>Health Promotion Wales
>Phone : +44-1222 681230
>Fax : +44-1222 756000
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Une tres bonne journee.

Michel O'Neill, Ph.D.

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