9^TH EUROPEAN PUBLIC HEALTH CONFERENCE

ALL FOR HEALTH – HEALTH FOR ALL

9 – 12 NOVEMBER 2016

AUSTRIA CENTER VIENNA (ACV), VIENNA

REGISTRATION

Registration for the 9th EPH Conference opens 1 March 2016. You can benefit from early bird registration fees until 1 September. We are expecting over 1,200 delegates. Meet your colleagues at the largest public health event in Europe and register early to benefit from the reduced rates.

Early bird registration fees for EUPHA and ÖGPH members are EUR 600. Non-members pay EUR 680, Early career professionals pay EUR 420 (all including VAT).

Preconferences can be booked online once the preconference programme is completed in April. At all times they can be added to your earlier made registration by contacting us at registration@ephconference.eu.

ABSTRACTS

Abstract submission is open until 1 May 2016. Abstracts are invited for workshops, oral presentations, pitch presentations and posters. Prizes will be awarded for the best oral, poster and early career professional’s presentation. Do not miss the opportunity to be recognised for your hard work.

Abstract submission does not have to be confined to the conference themes. Abstracts and workshop proposals can be submitted here.

CONFERENCE THEMES

The theme for the 9th EPH Conference is ‘All for Health, Health for All’. Subthemes are:

From Ottawa to Vienna: 30 Years of the Ottawa Charter: celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Ottawa Charter. Where are we now and where should we go?

Health for All: highlighting the importance of good health and access to health care for all.

All for Health: looking outside the traditional fields of public health. Are other fields aware that their work has an impact on health?

Health Technologies: E-health, telemedicine, health apps, smart watches, ambient assisted technology and living. Where does that lead us?

Achieving Health in Fragmented Systems: exploring the relation between new forms of work, social solidarity, health insurance and health promotion.

PRECONFERENCES, LUNCH SYMPOSIUMS

We offer interesting opportunities for preconferences and lunch symposiums. If you have plans for a lunch symposium, preconference or an exhibition stand, please contact us at office@ephconference.eu

The 9th EPH Conference is held in the modern Austria Center Vienna, only a few U-Bahn stops from the centre of Vienna.

The European Public Health Conference Foundation, the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) and the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Public Health (ÖGPH) are pleased to invite you to the 9th European Public Health Conference.

WILLKOMMEN IN WIEN

Floris Barnhoorn

EUPHA – European Public Health Association

EPH Conference Office

Just imagine…

• a technology enabling us to extract a tiny quantity of DNA from a single hair or drop of blood at the scene of a crime and increase the amount of it a million times or more so that it can be analysed
• a technology allowing us to analyse the DNA from a bacterial or viral infection in order to diagnose an illness
• a technology that makes it possible to mass-produce DNA from fossil remains, extinct for millions of years

This technology exists - it is the polymerase chain reaction.

	Copies of a poster on the polymerase chain reaction have been distributed to all secondary schools in the UK. Download a copy of the poster (you will need Adobe Acrobat reader to view it).
	Like all brilliant ideas, the polymerase chain reaction is incredibly simple yet extremely clever at the same time. These pages provide details of the reaction to supplement the information on the poster.
	Learn more about the polymerase chain reaction by studying this animation.
	The polymerase chain reaction has found a place at the heart of forensic scientists’ armoury in the fight against crime. Read about the way PCR is used to track down criminals – and the bizarre role it played in bringing to justice the killer of one of the early DNA scientists.
	The first big plague of the 21st century is a disease called SARS. What are the facts about it? How can it be detected? How might it be defeated? And what role can PCR play?
	PCR has been responsible for some big changes in the way that doctors detect disease. This has made it possible to detect diseases far earlier than could even be dreamt of in the past. How would you communicate the impact of these changes to newspaper readers?
	DNA technology has the potential to change our lives in all kinds of ways. Read about some of the possibilities – and decide which way YOU think the future should go.
	The poster and Web pages contain a wealth of information about the polymerase chain reaction. When you think you know it all, try this simple quiz to test your knowledge.
	The world of science is constantly changing – and this is especially true for the science of DNA and genetics. Keep up to date with the hottest ideas in DNA technology here.
	The world of biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry depend on thousands of people in a whole range of different jobs. Find out here about some of these life enhancing careers.

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E’ in particolare l’aspergillo che causa l’aspergillosi a coinvolgere i pazienti immuno-compromessi, i pazienti con trapianto di midollo, i pazienti trattati per linfomi e leucemia, i pazienti sottoposti a trapianto di organi, i pazienti sottoposti a chemioterapia. Gli impianti di trattamento dell’aria, condizionamento, ventilazione devono essere tenuti sotto stretto controllo dal punto di vista microbiologico per accertare che i microrganismi veicolati dalla polvere provocata dai lavori non creino problemi in particolare ai pazienti citati. Una regola di massima per accertare la qualità dell’aria all’interno delle strutture è quella di raffrontare metodicamente, ad intervalli regolari, la carica microbica interna con quella esterna mediante il campionatore microbiologico d’aria: quella interna deve sempre essere inferiore a quella dell’ambiente circostante.

Ai fini della riduzione/eliminazione del rischio biologico, in accordo al D.L. n. 626/94, tutto il materiale patogeno o potenzialmente patogeno presente nel laboratorio di microbiologia (Petri, provette, tamponi, pipette, liquidi organici, colture, brodi, terreni, etc.) deve essere decontaminato. Il sistema più comune di sterilizzazione è la autoclavatura. Il tempo necessario per garantire una completa decontaminazione dipende da diversi fattori di carico. Questi fattori includono (a) il tipo di contenitore che raccoglie il materiale (metallo o plastica), (b) l’uso del sacchetto in plastica autoclavabile, (c) il quantitativo di acqua aggiunta al materiale infetto, (d) il peso del materiale.

- Importanza dell’aggiunta di acqua

Dall’esame della Figura si può vedere come il tempo necessario per raggiungere la reale prescelta temperatura di sterilizzazione al cuore del materiale introdotto in una normale autoclave a gravità varia considerevolmente.                                                      

Il carico di ciascuno dei 4 test era costituito da 1750 grammi di Petri contenenti agar. Il carico ( pallino pieno ) è stato autoclavato in un contenitore in acciaio contenente 1 litro di acqua; il carico ( pallino vuoto ) è stato autoclavato in un contenitore in acciaio senza aggiunta  di acqua; il carico ( quadratino pieno ) è stato autoclavato in un sacchetto contenente 1 litro di acqua; il carico ( quadratino vuoto ) è stato autoclavato in un sacchetto senza aggiunta di acqua. Come si può vedere, l’aggiunta di acqua accelera notevolmente il raggiungimento della temperatura di sterilizzazione.

- Conclusioni

Per un corretto impiego dell’autoclave, (a) non ci si deve basare sulla sola lettura del visualizzatore digitale di temperatura, ma sulla temperatura raggiunta al cuore del materiale da sterilizzare; (b) il tempo di sterilizzazione deve essere considerato dal momento che la temperatura voluta ha raggiunto il cuore del materiale da sterilizzare; (c) si deve aggiungere acqua al contenitore per accelerare l’innalzamento della temperatura.