Proceedings
Subtitle: 1st High Tatras International Health Symposium
Contributors: Listed Under Section On Notes
Publisher: Sympos International
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardbound
Number of pages: 306
Copyright date: 1992
First sentence: When I delivered the Keynote Address at our Joint Symposium on HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN CHANGING EUROPE IN THE YEAR 2000, at Strbske Pleso, in the High Tatra Mountains, I wondered at what unique qualification I might have had that merited this singular honor. I was neither Czech nor Slovak. My background had scarcely prepared me for the physical and emotional realities that had come to Central Europe, and any perception of a society starting to develop a new consciousness did not become apparent to me, until one day late in November 1989, I stood with one quarter of a million other people, in a square in Prague, and saw Alexander Dubcek appear on a balcony with Vaclav Havel. The words that I remember from that occasion were "Jsem spisovatel" ( "I am a writer"), not promises to raise the state of human health and welfare! ( From the Preface by Stacey B. Day).
Description: A symposium on HEALTH CARE jointly arranged between the Postgraduate Medical School and School of Public Health, Bratislava, Czecho - Slovakia and Division of Behavioural Medicine, New York Medical College. Czechoslovakia had just emerged from a Communist oriented social system and it was clear that there was to be a psychological, social, and environmental shift in the Quality of Life. The papers discussed a broad range of health problems in Eastern Europe and discussed strategies for their solution. Institutions were headed for change. Health priorities and the structure of educational activities needed to be adjusted to new perspectives in Europe, and organizations like the W.H.O. were called upon to help as much as possible in creating mutually acceptable programmes aimed at improving the quality of life of  these new emerging East European States.
Notes: Lectures By: D. Suleman (Ireland); S.A. Keleman (Hungary); E.F Oluyitan (Nigeria); M.L.Duxbury (Wisconsin); V.Vacek (Prague); H. Teshima ( Fukuoka);  O. Balint (Bratislava); M. Palat (Bratislava); A.G Chuchalin (Moscow); V.Vondra (Prague); D.Salat (Tatranska Polianka); V.Krcmery (Bratislava);K. Tomasukova (Banska Bystrica); M. Selest (Dolny Smokovec); J. Siegelova (Brno); J. Kandus (Ostrava); B. Kral (Hradec Kralove);P. Kristufek (Bratislava);H. Kayserova (Bratislava); V. Salatova (Novy Smokovec); V. Milovsky (Bratislava); L. Badalik (Bratislava);M. Paniakova (Bratislava); V. Rusnakova (Bratislava); M. Rusnak (Bratislava);E.Egnerova (Bratislava); M. Avdicova (Banska Bystrica); F. Hauser (Prague);  I. Smejcova (Prague); E. Fabianova (Banska Bystrica); J.Kalac (Bratislava); V. Olear (Zilina);O. Bangha (Bratislava - Podunajske Biskupice); I. Mateffy (Bratislava); P. Belin (Strbske Pleso); S.Makovcova (Strbske Pleso); P.P. Gorbenko St Petersburg;J. Korpas (Martin); J. Sadlonova (Masrtin); L.A. Debreczeni (Hungary); J. Hanacek (Martin); A. Calkovska (Martin); V. Pohanka (Dolny Smokovec).
Table of contents: title: Message From The  W.H.O. Regional Office, Copenhagen; title: Preface: Health And Quality Of Life In Changing Europe In The Year 2000 (Day); title: Introduction Of Slovak Institutions Organizing The International Symposium - (Badalik et al); title: Keynote Address: Competing Technocracies And Cultural Dilemmas in the 21st Century - (Day); title: NOTES above list papers of participating lecturers over three days of meetings.