CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Thursday, 15th September

Thursday, 15 th September
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
8.30 – 9.00 ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS
9.00 – 9.30 Welcome Speeches
Rado Bohinc
Rector of the University of Primorska, Slovenia
Nadja Plazar,
Dean of the College of Health Care Izola University of Primorska,
Slovenia
Lijana Zaletel-Kragelj
Association of Teachers of Public Health of Slovenia
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public
Health, Slovenia
9.30 – 10.45 Keynote Lecturers (Room 4, 3 rd Floor):
Nadja Plazar
University of Primorska, College of Health Care Izola, Slovenia
EDUCATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH: CURRENT STATE AND ISSUES
Theodore H. Tulchinsky
Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Ein Karem,
Jerusalem, Israel
CHANGING CAPACITY, CHALLENGES, AND CONCEPTS: THE NEW PUBLIC
HEALTH
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break (3 rd Floor)
11.00 – 12.30 Keynote Lecturers (Room 4, 3 rd Floor):
Zdenka Čebašek – Travnik, Martina Ocepek
Human Rights Ombudsman Republic of Slovenia
THE RIGHT TO (PUBLIC) HEALTH AS A HUMAN RIGHT
Rado Bohinc
University of Primorska, Slovenia
SOME LEGAL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH: THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE IS
THE SUPREME LAW!
Marjan Premik
Association of Teachers of Public Health of Slovenia
(Presented by: Liijana Zaletel-Kragelj, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of
Medicine, Department of Public Health, Slovenia)
KNOWLEDGE FOR CHANGES, CHANGES FOR HEALTH
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch (College Lobby)

14.00 – 16.15 Session: CURRENT ISSUES OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(Room 1, College Lobby)
14.00 – 15.30 Session: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RELATED ISSUES
(Room 2, College Lobby)
16.15. – 16.30 Coffee break (College Lobby)
16.30 - 18.00 Keynote Lecturers (Room 4, 3 rd Floor):
19.00 Gala dinner
Ivan Eržen
Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Health
DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN SLOVENIA –
A KEY CHALLENGE IN PRECONDITION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
FOR THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF A SUSTAINABLE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Lijana Zaletel-Kragelj, Ivan Eržen
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public
Health, Slovenia
RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC HEALTH: SOME GENERAL FEATURES
AND FEATURES OF SLOVENIAN RESEARCH
Jadranka Božikov, Zdravko Lacković
University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Croatia
CHANGES IN PHD EDUCATION AND JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Friday, 16 th September
9.00 – 9.30 ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS
9.30 – 10.00 Keynote Lecturer (Room 4, 3 rd Floor):
Parameswar Nayak
ITS, Institute of Management, Greater Noida, India
CHALLENGES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AS DETERMINANT OF PUBLIC
HEALTH IN THE 21 ST CENTURY
10.00 – 10.15 Coffee break (College Lobby)
10.15 – 13.00 Session: THE CONCEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
(Room 1, College Lobby)
10.15 – 13.00 Session: PREVENTION
(Room 2, College Lobby)
13.00 – 15.00 Lunch (College Lobby)
15.00 – 17.00 Roundtable
EDUCATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN SLOVENIA/
IZOBRAŽEVANJE NA PODROČJU JAVNEGA ZDRAVJA V SLOVENIJI
(Room 4, 3 rd Floor, in English and Slovenian Language)
Theodore H. Tulchinsky
Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Ein Karem,
Jerusalem, Israel
Nadja Plazar (moderator)
University of Primorska College of Health Care Izola, Slovenia
Milan Krek
Institute of Public Health Koper, Slovenia
STEP TO THE FUTURE PUBLIC HEALTH
Brane L. Leskošek
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Biostatistics and
Medical Informatics, Slovenia