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Call for Papers

Invitation

The Organising Committee of the World Congress of Health Professions invites the submission of abstracts for the Congress to be held at the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre in March 2008.

Submission of abstracts closes 13 April 2007. All expressions of interest are subject to approval by the Congress organising committee. Successful and unsuccessful applicants will be notified by email.

Selection Criteria

The following selection criteria will be applied in the decision making process:

  • Submission is received by the due date.
  • Submission is received electronically using the approved template.
  • Submission demonstrates relevance to the Congress theme and sub-themes.
  • Title clearly introduces the session content.
  • Session draws on evidenced based practice or makes a case for future developments and trends.
  • Session content has appeal to an international audience.
  • Session applicability to the structure of the Congress program.

Keynote Address

  • Sixty minute plenary sessions comprising forty five minutes of presentation followed by fifteen minutes of facilitated question time.
  • Keynote addresses will be aligned to the key themes of the Congress.

Concurrent Sessions

Forty minute sessions comprising thirty minutes of presentation or workshop time followed by ten minutes of facilitated question time. Sessions will be streamed to align with the key themes of the Congress.

Twenty minute sessions comprising fifteen minutes of presentation time followed by five minutes of facilitated question time. Sessions will be streamed to align with the key themes of the Congress.

Pre- and Post-Congress Workshops

Interested persons and organisations are invited to propose half day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours) workshops to be scheduled before or after the Congress.

These workshops will be fully managed by Events WA and become adjunct components of the Congress but enjoy the full marketing and registration service of the Congress.

The organizing committee reserves the right to decide the price per person for workshops following negotiations with presenters.

Themes

Our world is changing. As the world becomes "smaller" through access to information and improved communication, we can no longer plan for the future in isolation. What touches our planet, touches each one of us.

As we focus on the services that have always been needed, world changes are creating a need for services we have not yet developed. In the coming decades, there will be many new services, innovations, jobs and technologies in health.

Our aim is to provide health care, disability management and health promotion in this changing world. If we are to succeed we must begin to think with deeper understanding of poverty, technology, human motivation, health systems and the age-old concept of healing.

This Congress seeks to examine ways in which we can meet the challenges of our future.

Global Challenges and Worldwide Health

  • Spread of disease and pandemics Management of refugees and victims of violence and torture
  • Victim support: surviving violence and trauma
  • Climate change, its effect on water supply, nutrition and disease
  • Changing population demographics in a changing world
  • The diseases of poverty and affluence
  • Economics of globalisation
  • Export Health - capitalising on our strengths

The Impact of New Technologoy on Healthcare

  • Nano-technology and genetics
  • Robotic applications in health
  • New technology in the hospital, home and community
  • The use of e-technology and e-information
  • Integrated databases for health research
  • Diagnostic and imaging innovations

Innovations in Service Delivery

  • Medical innovations in different cultures
  • The tension between innovation and evidence based practice
  • Alternative and complementary therapies
  • Community-based models of care and management
  • Distance medicine and e-Health
  • Technoligcal developments in Patient Information
  • Systems and communication

Workforce and Training

  • Retention strategies - flexible work practices, stress factors
  • Demographics - the aging workforce, the globalisation of the workforce
  • Professions of the future - emerging new professions,economic rationalism v. professional standards, extended scope practice, specialisation versus multi skilling
  • Training issues - e-technology and simulation training, predicting trainee requirements and workforce demands

Demands and Opportunities

  • Turning resreach into reality
  • Moral and ethical dilemmas
  • Illness versus Wellness
  • Pharmaceuticals of the future
  • Measures of "success"
  • Multiculturalism: health expectations and work relations
  • Emotional intelligence in the workplace
  • Private versus Public Health Care systems

Submission of Abstracts

Applications can be made online.

Further details and the application template can be obtained from the Congress Office.

Applications can only be accepted if accompanied by an AUD$100 lodgement fee. This fee will later be either;

  • Refunded to non successful applicants
  • Credited to the registration cost of successful applicants
  • Credited to the registration cost of unsuccessful applicants who choose to participate as a delegate

The lodgement fee will not be refundable to accepted applicants who later withdraw their presentation.

The Congress Management Committee will advise successful applicants of the date by which registration fees are to be paid in full. These measures are designed to reduce withdrawals from the program which disadvantages delegates and other potential presenters.

Closing date 13 April 2007.

Notes

  • The Congress language is English. All abstracts, presentations and materials must be in English.
  • Accepted presenters will be expected to register as delegates for the Congress (excludes invited speakers) and to be available at the time scheduled by the organising committee.
  • Co-authors and co-presenters are acceptable.
  • Any sources of funding/commercial support associated with the submission must be acknowledged.
  • Work that has been previously presented must be acknowledged as such in the application.
  • Accepted abstracts must subsequently be provided as papers or presentations to the Organising Committee for publication within the Congress proceedings.
  • Accepted presentations must follow the same outline as the submitted abstract.
  • The Congress Organising Committee reserves all rights and its decisions are final.

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