Healthy Physicians for a Healthy Society
This major international conference took place in Barcelona from 1 to 3 December 2010.
Hosted by the Galatea Foundation, the conference attracted 98 delegates from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, UK and USA
The conference conclusions were:
- Priority for promotion of health and wellbeing for health professionals
- Early detection to prevent problems before they occur
- Improvement of the caring programmes
- Diffusion of EAPH aims
- Promote involvement in the EAPH of members from all European countries
- Design of multicentric studies at European level in order to obtain funds from EU
- Involvement of policy makers, boards, institutions
- Assessment of effectiveness and efficiency of interventions and their outcomes
- Outcomes should favour human aspects, not only economic aspects
- Support human and social capital
- Hospital managers should care more for physicians’ health, but they are not the only ones
- Interventions to focus on individuals, as well as organizations
- Using the health professional information to help all healthcare staff
- Encourage peer groups support
- Early detection in medical students
Download the speaker presentations
The relationships between coping, job stress and burnout
Chronic embitterment
Deceptive appearances - disentangling health and behaviour
Disruptive and distressed doctors - relevance of personality disorder