Healthy City

The World Health Organization (WHO), Office for Europe initiated the Healthy Cities Project in 1986 as a long-term international development project that seeks to put health on the agenda of the local, city level political decision-makers. Healthy City is a process; it is about the change, innovation and formal system reorientation. It is not award recognizing past merits; it is a tool helping to address our cities present and future societal and developmental challenges. The Healthy City Project challenges city administrations to take seriously the process of developing health–enhancing public policies and create physical and social environments that support health but, as well, strengthen citizens’ participation

Community Health- Public Health Research Methods and Practice

For few decades the value of a community, empowerment, community-based care, population-based needs assessment was discussed, but not so much of the evidence of this commitment was found in the public health interventions. Potential contributions from the social sciences tend to be overwhelmed by the appeal of the biomedical and behavioural sciences. Three concepts and notions notion of community in public health were dominated: First, community- a lots and lots of people or community as the population; second could be described as community as “giant reinforcement schedule” or community as setting, with aspects of that setting being used as levers to support and maintain individual behaviour change. The third, newest, approach sees community as “eco-system with capacity to work towards solutions to its own community identified problems” or to see it as a social system. This notion of community focused on strengths instead merely on deficits. Two groups of research activities (systematic study of communities and inequality research) supported with evidence from many applied researches done through development of European Healthy Cities Project contributed to this shift in perception of the value of the community. In this course we elaborate inequity research, “System” study of communities and present case study: „Community applied research in Croatia- “triggered” by Healthy Cities“

Izvješće s redovite godišnje skupštine Hrvatskog društva za javno zdravstvo

Mjesto održavanja: Dvorana A, Š NZ "Andrija Š tampar", Rockefellerova 4, Zagreb. Vrijeme održavanja: 18. svibnja (petak) 2007. u 11:30 - 14:00 sati Skupštini je bilo nazočno 29 članova Društva (popis u arhivu društva!)

Izvješće s redovite godišnje skupštine Hrvatskog društva za javno zdravstvo

Mjesto održavanja: Dvorana A, Š NZ "Andrija Š tampar", Rockefellerova 4, Zagreb. Vrijeme održavanja: 18. svibnja (petak) 2007. u 11:30 - 14:00 sati Skupštini je bilo nazočno 29 članova Društva (popis u arhivu društva!)

Od urednika broja

Izazvao sam zbrku. Zapravo pravu i ozbiljnu zbrku, a sve u namjeri da pozovem čitatelje HČJZ-a na suradnju. I to ne o nečem apstraktnom, već vrlo životnom i vrlo aktualnom - donošenju nacionalnih dokumenata o zdravlju. Dobio sam dosta reakcija - pohvala za hrabrost, kritika «jer skrivam sto radim», upita zbunjenih kolega - jesam li ili nisam sudjelovao u izradi nacionalne strategije?! I upravo je ta dvojba nešto čega se najviše plašim i što mi se ponajviše ne sviđa u cijeloj ovoj priči oko strategija, zakona..... Kako je moguće da netko tvrdi da je sudjelovao u izradi nečeg tako važnog kao Strategija zdravstva, a da pri tome on sam ne može dokazati da doista jest, kao što niti nitko drugi ne može dokazati da nije sudjelovao? Ili još gore kako je moguće da neznano tko je stvarno autor

Health workforce shortage – doing the right things or doing things right?

Healthcare workforce shortage is a worldwide problem (1). Workforce shortage may be defined as not having the right number of people with the right skills in the right place at the right time, to provide the right services to the right people (2). In this regard, the trends are worrisome, and the situation is getting worse. The consequences are also very consistent – limited care health services and limited quality of health care (1). In short, there is an imbalance between need and supply. The solution: as health care needs increase worldwide, the “production” of personnel must be increased! But is it really that simple? Are the problem and the solution so reciprocal and directly linked

Od urednika broja

Izazvao sam zbrku. Zapravo pravu i ozbiljnu zbrku, a sve u namjeri da pozovem čitatelje HČJZ-a na suradnju. I to ne o nečem apstraktnom, već vrlo životnom i vrlo aktualnom - donošenju nacionalnih dokumenata o zdravlju. Dobio sam dosta reakcija - pohvala za hrabrost, kritika «jer skrivam sto radim», upita zbunjenih kolega - jesam li ili nisam sudjelovao u izradi nacionalne strategije?! I upravo je ta dvojba nešto čega se najviše plašim i što mi se ponajviše ne sviđa u cijeloj ovoj priči oko strategija, zakona..... Kako je moguće da netko tvrdi da je sudjelovao u izradi nečeg tako važnog kao Strategija zdravstva, a da pri tome on sam ne može dokazati da doista jest, kao što niti nitko drugi ne može dokazati da nije sudjelovao? Ili još gore kako je moguće da neznano tko je stvarno autor

Health care issues in Croatian elections 2005-2009: series of public opinion surveys

Aim To compare the results of a series of public opinion surveys on experiences with the health care sector in Croatia conducted in the time of elections and to analyze whether political party affiliation had any influence on issues of priority ranking. Methods The surveys were conducted during 2005, 2007, and 2009. They were administered through a Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing method to representative samples of Croatian population and were statistically weighted according to sex, age, level of education, and political party affiliation. The random sampling of the person within the household was done using the table of random numbers. Results Health and health care system was the most important issue (58%) during the 2007 parliamentary election and the second most important issue during the 2005 and 2009 elections (46% and 28%). In the 2007 election, health care was viewed as most important by women, respondents with lower education levels, and respondents with lower income. In 2005, the most important health care issues were corruption and lack of funding (45% and 43%, respectively), in 2007 poor organization and lack of funding (43% and 42%, respectively), and in 2009 lack of funding and corruption (51% and 45%, respectively). Conclusion Health and health care system were consistently among the top two issues in all elections from 2005 to 2009. The top three most important health care sector issues were corruption, poor organization, and lack of funding. This indicates that political parties should include solutions to these issues in their health care policymaking