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International Conference of Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Epidemiology, Disease Prevention and Control

2010, 19-20 November, Pécs, Hungary

 

 

Highlighted topics of the conference:

  • Epidemiology:
    • Diseases of public health significance: Actual trends and tendencies
    • New risk factors, changes in the role of traditional risk factors
  • Disease prevention:
    • Predictive and prognostic biomarkers
    • Molecular mechanisms in disease prevention
  • Public health:
    • Regionality in public health
    • Health policy and the world economic crisis
    • Local and global initiatives in health promotion (Co-organized by “Health Cities Foundation”, part of the „Health Cities” WHO Project)

 

Joint programs:

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  • Annual conference of the Hungarian Society for Epidemiology
  • „CASCADE” Chemicals and contaminants in the food chain, EU project meeting

 

Short summary:

The planned interdisciplinary Conference has the disease prevention in its focus. The topics cover several aspects of the prevention, from the recent advances in molecular biology, through environmental-occupational risk factors to the health policy. Representatives of well working disease prevention and health promotion projects are welcome, in order to disseminate the knowledge accumulated in the framework of these programs.

The invited speakers are well known and recognized leading scientists of the relevant fields, guaranteeing the scientific value of the Conference. The main topics of the Conference focus on the actual challenges of the XXI. century.

Pécs was the “Cultural Capital of Europe” in 2010, and this project gives an excellent opportunity to emphasize certain subjects, like exchange of ideas between different European regions concerning health related problems and activities, also by utilizing the results of the WHO “Healthy Cities” movement.

 

Pécs – a city of Mediterranean impressions (http://en.pecs.hu/, http://www.pecs2010.hu/):

     The historical roots of the city go back to the prehistoric times, when man found a living area, near the Mecsek hill. The multicultural characteristic of Pécs is highly influenced by its history: it was called Sopianae – during the Roman times, about 2000 years ago, and the Turkish period left also characteristic traces on the city. The “Cultural Capital of Europe 2010” title is an obligation: the visitors can choose between a huge variety of cultural programs, concerts, festivals and joint events. Pécs is also a very good starting point for making excursions to the surrounding ares, like for example the famous Villány region with its traditional top quality Hungarian red wines.

 

Program, further information, application, accomodation:

http://icpm.aok.pte.hu

e-mail: icpm@aok.pte.hu