EUSPR Office Conference Day 1, October 16th 2014 Plenary Session 1 1.1 The economic and social value of prevention in policy development Professor Kevin A. Fenton MD, PhD, FFPH National Director for Health and Wellbeing, Public Health England, UK Professor Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, FFPH, is the Public Health England National Director for Health and Wellbeing. In …
Pre-conference workshops were convened with our SPAN partners on the 15th October. Workshops ran simultaneously from 0930-1530. The two workshops were: 1. Optimising behavioural interventions – The MOST model and understanding effective prevention programme components – Prof Linda Collins, Penn State University (USA), and Prof Fabrizio Faggiano, Avogadro University (IT) 2. Economic analysis and the cost effectiveness …
Pre-conference workshops – 15th October 2014 Please click here for more information. Workshops will run concurrently from 0930-1600. Registration from 0900. 1. Optimising behavioural interventions – the MOST model and understanding effective prevention programme components. Convened by Prof Linda Collins and Prof Fabrizio Faggiano. Room: Aula 1 2. Economic analysis and the cost effectiveness of prevention …
The conference presentations can be downloaded at the following links by EUSPR Members and conference attendees: Conference speaker presentationsConference poster presentations The workshop presentations can be downloaded at the following link by EUSPR Members, SPAN Members and pre-conference workshop attendees: Workshop presentations
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affair — Department of State (USA) seeks proposals for drug prevention programming and awareness activities to build stronger and more resilient communities that are aware of and can counter the dangers of drug use in Burma. In the range of $25,000-$150,000. Please see the link to the grants.gov website for …
This is an opportunity for an early to mid-career researcher with a passion for improving children’s lives and an interest in seeing their research make a difference. The Social Research Unit (SRU) is a unique organisation with a 50-year history of influencing policy and practice in children’s services with high quality research. The post offers …
“Form ever follows function. This is the law”. A prevention taxonomy based on a functional typology David R. Foxcroft, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University Abstract The universal, selective and indicated forms of prevention classification scheme has been recommended and largely adopted as an improvement on previous notions of primary and secondary …
Reconceptualizing Drug Use Prevention Processes – Zili Sloboda Abstract The field of drug use prevention has been advanced through a convergence of theories of human behavior, a more enhanced understanding of the factors that have been found to be associated with the onset of drug use, and more sophisticated research methodologies impacting not only study …
The Second International Forum For Health Promotion Research, August 25-27 2014, being held in Trondheim, Norway, is now open for registration and abstracts. The forum is titled: Health Promotion Research – An International Forum “Next Health” The objective of the 2nd International Forum arranged in Health Promotion Research is to enable researchers, practitioners and policy …
Programme Conference booklet (updated) Conference flyerSpeakers Pre-conference Workshops Is an ounce of prevention still worth a pound of cure? The economics and value of prevention. The 5th EUSPR annual conference and members’ meeting took place in Palma de Mallorca, Majorca from the 16th to 18th of October 2014. With pre-conference workshops convened on the 15th October …