Am 3. Mai findet die 6. Mediensucht-Konferenz in Bonn statt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die exzessiv oder missbräuchliche Mediennutzung und die Frage, an welchen Stellen kann und soll Mediensuchtprävention einsetzen und anfangen. Dabei sind viele Akteure angesprochen: Neben der Suchthilfe allem die Bereiche Jugendhilfe, Jugendsozialarbeit, Erziehung, Pädagogik und Bildung. Die Veranstaltung wird gefördert durch das Bundesministerium … Read More →

The overarching theme of eHealth Week 2017 is Data for Health: the key to personalised sustainable care. Data lies at the heart of service delivery and the development of effective health policy. During eHealth Week, speakers and delegates will explore the changing ways in which personal health data is created, stored, shared and used. Advances … Read More →

Interventions: Communication Research and Practice “Intervention” points to a range of communication practices that engage with a political event, social phenomena, industrial or socio-cultural practice, in order to alter and disrupt events and the norms and practices that contribute to their occurrence.  Interventions prohibit events from proceeding in a “normal” course.  Interventions approach or critique … Read More →

Essenz. Innovative Themen brauchen ein innovatives Format – mit 5 Bühnen, einem richtungsweisenden Innovationskongress, der Future Health Ausstellung, einem ausgefeilten Startup Bereich und zahlreichen Networking-Features ist die XPOMET© Convention ein einzigartiges internationales Innovationsnetzwerk auf dem DACH-Markt. Akteure. Im Fokus der Veranstaltung stehen Unternehmen, Institutionen und Individuen, die eine treibende Kraft in der Entwicklung des gesamten medizinischen Bereichs … Read More →

In the recent years, with the increasing use of tele-communication, mobile devices, smartphone apps and self-tracking devices for medical purposes, ‘digital health’ has emerged as a field of interest for researchers in the social sciences and the humanities. At the centre of this small but rapidly growing area of interdisciplinary investigation are studies of websites … Read More →

About the Conference This one-day conference seeks to explore representations of the body as strange, shameful, wrong, impaired, wounded, scarred, disabled, lacking, different or ‘other’ in contemporary media. The advent of digital media has underlined the importance of visual culture and our curiosity in representations of the body to form opinions about ourselves and others. … Read More →

Introduction: Health Communication and Health Promotion are important fields for researchers, practitioners and policy makers. The goal of the course is to provide an overview of important relevant theoretical perspectives, taking the motivational approach as a starting point: how can we motivate individuals and organizations to adopt healthy behaviors and policies? In particular, the transition … Read More →

Vom 22.-25.08.2017 veranstaltet die Professur für Medienpsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Angela Schorr den 13. Kongress für Gesundheitspsychologie der Fachgruppe für Gesundheitspsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Das Kongressthema lautet „Gesundheitspsychologie 4.0 – Konzeptuelle Innovationen, interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, neue Karrieren“. Es greift die aktuellen Überlegungen der „Gesundheit 4.0“-Initiative von Wissenschaft, Politik und … Read More →

The Summer Event will feature high quality half-day workshops on important and exciting topics in the research, teaching, and policy and practice of healthcare communication. (Quelle: each.eu)

The second eHealth Innovation Days will be hosted in Flensburg (Germany) on the 7th and 8th of September 2017 and gather the different professions and stakeholders concerned with eHealth: Developers, healthcare professionals, researchers, policy makers, citizens, as well as companies and entrepreneurs are welcome. The floor is open to generate innovative ideas, discuss the current … Read More →