PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME - Sunday, 25 November 2007

09.00-10.00 
Registration and coffee

10.00 – 10.15

 Opening and welcome address
A brief outlook on conference objectives and procedures
WHO and lögd

Adoption of programme and election of chair and rapporteur

10.15 – 13.00 10 theses on the regional dimension of “health and wealth” – the scientific background
Dr Josef Hilbert, University of Duisburg/Essen

Healthy people are good for the economy – also in industrial regions
Dr Francois Decaillet, WHO Europe

Healthy region NRW – what is the political idea?
Uwe Borchers, ZIG, OWL Centre for Innovation in the Health Market, Bielefeld, Germany

A Europe of regions – the EU view on regional “Health and Wealth”
NN, Representative of the Committee of the Regions, EU

10 theses on the regional dimension of “health and wealth” - Final discussion, collection of comments and supplements
NN, WHO
Dr Helmut Brand, lögd

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break - Restaurant Belle Etoile (Lindner)

14.00 – 15.30 The PICNIC-project – regional health economy operationalized
Jeremy Thorp, Technology Office NHS, Great Britain

HealthClusterNET – health care boosting regional development
Tony Batty, North East region, Great Britain

Governance performance of regional health systems
Professor Vittorio Mapelli, Università degli studi di Milano

15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break and dividing into groups

15.45 – 17.00
 Parallel working groups on projects and studies
A: The PICNIC-project (group A stays in room Berlin/München)
B: HealthClusterNET (group B goes to room Hamburg, first floor)
C: Governance performance of regional health systems (group C goes to room Oberstaufen, first floor)

17.30 – 18.30 The 15th anniversary of the Regions for Health Network
Exhibition and reception

 

Tuesday, 27 November 2007

9.00 – 9.45
 Human resources for health policies
Professor Z. Paidaga, Head, Dept. of Preventive Medicine
Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania

09.45 – 10.30 Ways to steer in decentralized health systems
Professor Jon Magnussen, Dept. of Public Health and General Practice, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break and dividing into parallel working groups

10.45-11.45 Parallel working groups
A: Human resources for health policies (group a: Room München)
B: Ways to steer in decentralized health systems (group b: Room Köln)

11.45 – 12.00 Closure of the 15th Annual Conference