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Turku HPH Conference - Information now online
Information about the programme of the 19th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services in Turku, Finland (June 1-3, 2011) can be found on the new HPH-conference website
(September 9, 2010)

HPH Newsletter 45 now online!
HPH Newsletter #45 provides you mainly with previews to exiting events in the areas of HPH, health promotion and public health. Download here!
(September 9, 2010)

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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute - Health Promotion Research
(LBIHPR) (Vienna, Austria)

The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute - Health Promotion Research (LBIHPR), former Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Sociology of Health and Medicine (LBISHM) in Vienna, Austria has a WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health Care since 1992. From 1990-2001, the institute functioned as Co-ordinating Centre for the WHO Network of Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH). Since 2001, the WHO-Collaborating Centre continues to support some of the co-ordinating functions for the network (editing of the International HPH Newsletter, supporting the preparation of the annual international HPH conferences), and provides scientific support by further developing concepts and the knowledge base for health promotion in hospitals and other sectors of health care.

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Supporting health and health promotion in health care
The mission of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health Care is to support the development of hospitals and other health care institutions in Europe and other regions of the world into healthy and health promoting settings and organisations. The vision of Health Promoting Health Care ......
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