Submission of Abstracts
The main theme of the congress is recent social and economic changes affecting health and health care in European countries, with a specific focus on the East/West divide as well as on social disparities within the two parts of Europe.
Nonetheless, we invite abstracts on a wide range of themes related to health and medical sociology. The congress will include the 21 topics listed below.
Themes of the congress
- Inequalities in health
- Health/Illness behaviours
- Gender and Health
- Older People, health care and society
- Living with chronic diseases
- Patient experiences
- Dying, Death and bereavement
- Deviance and Illness
- Health professions
- Migration, health and culture
- Theoretical and methodological issues
- Health promotion
- Health at the workplace
- Health care systems analysis
- Utilization of services
- Measuring health outcomes
- Community care and informal care
- Hospitals and patient care
- Ethics in medicine
- Complementary and alternative health and health care
- Care-arrangements and well-being in the transition to parenthood
Depending on the research interests of the participants, the organisers may need to collapse two or more themes.
The participants are kindly requested
- to indicate which theme is their first and second choice when they send in their abstracts.
- to indicate if the abstract is for oral presentation or poster presentation.
Here you will find the ABSTRACT TEMPLATE
Important dates
30 April 2008: New Deadline for submission of abstracts (400 words) for Oral presentations or Posters.
Submission of registration form and payment of registration fee by presenters, otherwise their names will not appear in the Congress Book and abstracts will not be published.
15 May 2008: Notification of Successful Abstracts
20 June 2008: Deadline for Early bird Registration
28 – 30 August 2008: The ESHMS08 Congress at Oslo University College