Autumn HBSC meeting in Kosice
Thank you very much for spending these last few days with us. It was a great opportunity for our team to show you our beautiful city and place where we work. Hope you all have a pleasant way home.
We would like to cordially invite you to the International HBSC Autumn meeting, which will take place in Kosice October 25th – 27th, 2012.
What is HBSC study
HBSC (Health Behaviour in School Aged Children) is an international study, conducted in collaboration with the World Health Organization in 43 countries, since 1983. Its purpose is to monitor health and health-related behavior of school students in their social context, and also to deepen the understanding of mechanisms influencing the differences and changes in health risk behavior and 11 -, 13 - and 15 - year old schoolchildren. These findings are important for the development of effective health promotion programs, educational programs in health and monitoring their effectiveness, both at national and international level.
(For more information please visit www.hbsc.org or www.hbsc.sk)
Venue: The Faculty of Business Economics
University of Economics
Tajovského 13
041 30 Košice
Registration for the meeting is already closed.
Autumn HBSC meeting is organized by:
- Department of Health Psychology, Institute of Public Health, Medical Faculty P.J. Safarik University
- Social Program Evaluation Group, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- The Faculty of Business Economics, University of Economics in Bratislava, Košice
- World Health Organization, Country Office in Slovakia
- Visegrad fund (project: Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study: Supporting the Visegrad countries research network)
- MUDr. Richard Raši, PhD., MPH, Mayor of the Kosice city