Invitation

QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS

What is a key to well-functioning health care system in Slovakia? Does the current system design follow any principles? Principles are crucial for law making process and proper functioning of democratic society.  However, there might be a disproportion between declaration of principles and their application in medical practice. Transparency in law making process or legal certainty? Solidarity? Protection of property or an obligation to cure regardless of economic loss? The quality treatment in the perspective of resource scarcity? The protection of patient' s personality rights? The affirmative actions in favour of persons with disabilities?

Please, accept our invitation to this unique event. Get to know interesting opinions and let yourself be confronted with new challanges. Participate in this event with your knowledge and experience and make it a part of unique mosaic of answers to questions of medical practice.

EXPERT GUESTS AND CLEAR MESSAGE

Become involved in a rare group of leading experts  in the field of law, economy, bioethics, moral theology and medicine from Slovakia and from abroad.  In one place, in 2 days, more than 20 specialists will present their opinions and will be consequently confronted with opinions of tens of invited panelists. Lecturers, panelists and conference participants will form their opinions on conference thesis in moderated discussion.  Contribute to a synthesis of remarks and opinions on conference thesis and formulate your questions which you encountered in practice. Take advantage to address them to the experts. The recommendations of pannel sessions will be communicated to media, the National Council of the Slovak Republic and to the government. Lecturers' opinions will be published in a conference international publication (proceedings).
 MUDr. Darina Sedláková, MPH – the Head of World Health Organization Slovakia Country Office, MUDr. Richard Raši, PhD., MPH., the mayor of city of Košice and JUDr. Zuzana Zvolenská, the minister of health took a patronage over the conference.

BENEFITS FOR PARTICIPANTS

Every member will obtain an offprint of the proceedings containing contributions of the lecturers and other authors- exclusive schorlarly output fit for use in subsequent practice. Each participant will get a Certificate of the completition of education, with corresponding amount of credits for medical practicioners.

The purpose of the conference is to raise questions and discuss them. We seek to create an opportunity for participants to ask, discuss and influence a formulation of recommendations for all participants involved. The participant has an opportunity to confront his opinions with views of the other participants and publish in online post-Proceedings, which will be published by the organizer within 5 months.

ORGANIZER OF THE CONFERENCE              

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