IUHPE EFFECTIVENESS CONFERENCE 2005

6th IUHPE European Conference on the Effectiveness and Quality of Health Promotion: Best Practice for Better Health, Stockholm, Sweden, 1-4 June 2005. Best Practices for better health, organized in cooperation with the Swedish National Institute of Public Health.
This conference focussed on presenting and discussing evidence of effectiveness for what may be the best practice today and tomorrow, thus opdating the knowledge base for health promotion and health policies.
The conference marked the end of the 18-months-project Getting Evidence into Practice.

Newsletter with overview of project's presentations  (105 kB)
At the conference, the GEP-project was represented by way of plenary lectures and panel discussions, oral presentations and workshops on ‘Evidence into practice translating research into policy and practice of health promotion’.
 
Plenary session, Thursday, June 2, 2005   
- Getting evidence into Practice: perspective, lessons learned and steps to the future  (67 kB) by dr Gerard Molleman, project manager and director NIGZ-Centre for Knowledge and Quality Management.    
Photo impression of the plenary         (91 kB)
- Evidence for practice: a European protocol to review health promotion evidence by Ass prof Arja Aro, Senior Researcher, National Institute of Public Health (KTL), Finland (Results, Strand I ).
- Practice built on evidence: guidelines and quality tools for European health, by Dr Stephan Van den Broucke, Research Director, Flemish Institute for Health Promotion (VIG), Belgium (Results, Strand II ).
- A commentary from the perspective of the IUHPE-global health promotion effectiveness programme and experiences in the US, by Dr David McQueen, Associate Director for IUHPE's Global Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA.

IUHPE has issued a special edition of its journal Promotion & Education, solely dedicated to this project, entitled: The challenge of getting evidence into practice: current debates and future strategies. It contains the following topics (with translations into German, Spanish and French):

• current agenda
• technical issues
• reviews of evidence
• capacity building
• future action

See: http://www.iuhpe.org/upload/File/PE_GEP_05.pdf