Round Table Held on HIV National Legislation From a Human Rights and Gender Based Perspectives
CRPRC Studiorum and the Joined United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS UNAIDS on January 27, 2009 organized a round table discussion. The purpose of the discussion was to review the draft-version of the in-depth analysis of the national legislation regarding HIV from a human rights and gender based perspective, which was conducted by Studiorum’s research team.
Event Report from the 3rd Cervical Cancer Summit Meeting at the European Parliament
Two and a half years after the European Commission licensed the first vaccine against the Human papillomavirus (HPV), the cause of cervical cancer, only 15 European countries have implemented national vaccination programs. This was one of the main findings reported at the 3rd Cervical Cancer Summit Meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels on 21 January, part of European Cervical Cancer Prevention Week 2009 (18-24 January).
Fruitful Discussions at the Studiorum/OSI Conference on Roma and Public Health in Macedonia
On 22 January 2009 in Holiday Inn Skopje, CRPRC Studiorum and the Open Society Institute Macedonia organized one day conference on the topic Public Health in Macedonia and Roma, supported by the OSI Public Health Program.
The Handbook for Teachers, Researchers and Health Professionals Is Now Published
The book Management in Health Care Practice is collection of 45 teaching modules written by 49 authors from 8 countries. The teaching modules in this book covered areas of principles of public health, management cycle (planning, implementation and evaluation), technology and interventions, organization of health care and health services, change, leadership and some other fields of health care.
Reports from the “Lifestyle Determinants of Obesity” Scientific Platform Project Published
The first report gives a general overview about Health Information Activities, which are typically related to physical activity and nutrition. The second report focuses on available health information on lifestyle determinants of obesity in children.
Start of Project Implementation Patients’ Rights as a Policy Issue in Southeast Europe (2004-2006)
The project Patient Rights as a Policy Issue is aimed at analysis of the patients’ rights policies and the level and quality of their implementation in different national contexts, as well as in the light of different ethnical groups, especially focusing on the Roma population, as the most disadvantaged and socially excluded, and the ones that suffer most inequality and discrimination.
Macedonian Translation of “The New Public Health” Published
The translation of “The New Public Health” by Theodore Tulchinsky and Elena Varavikova (Academic Press, 2000) is the first official textbook of the Graduate Center-School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Skopje.