European Forum For Primary Care conference; call for abstracts
For the third biannual conference in Pisa on 30/31 August EFPC calls for research abstracts (by researchers), policy posters for debate (by policy makers) and multi-media practice presentations (by practitioners). Deadline for submission is 1 May 2010.
The European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC) brings together interested parties from different European countries, who will collect and share information about what structures and strategies matter in order to develop strong primary care within Europe.
The Forum was initiated in early 2005 by a group of interested parties from Belgium, the UK and the Netherlands. It quickly expanded to include representatives from France, Estonia, Italy and Denmark. Among them are practitioners and managers, policymakers and researchers. NIVEL was one of the initiators of the European Forum for Primary Care.
The third biannual conference of the European Forum for Primary Care in 2010 will explore a number of critical themes for primary care. Its aim is to enable participants to identify, define and appreciate the significance of questions - ranging from policy to organization, management and clinical care - which are likely to determine the future of primary care in
The conference scientific committee invites submissions of abstracts for oral, poster and multi-media presentations related to the issues and themes of the conference.
Conference themes:
- Chronic disease management
- Interdisciplinary collaboration & leadership development
- Managing properly the medicalization of health problems
- Monitoring primary care performance
- Health indicators including patient-related health outcomes and experiences
- Research, funding and service improvement in primary care