Propositions de communication :
- Date limite de soumission : 01/12/00
- Résumés limité à 400 mots
- Envoyer à Olivier Desrichard (en format RTF)
Informations complémentaires :
- Inscription gratuite
- Langue official : anglais
- Comité scientifique :
Olivier Desrichard, Université de Savoie (Chambéry - France)
Fabrizio Butera, Université Pierre-Mendès-France (Grenoble - France)
Glynis Breakwell, University of Surrey (Guilford - UK)
Dario Paez, Universidad del Pais Vasco (San Sebastian - Spain)
- Pour plus d'informations : http://www.llsh.univ-savoie.fr/labopsy/weblps.html
Cadre général :
The increasingly fast development of medical research has produced in recent years a number of benefits for human health ranging from reducing child mortality to expanding the life span, through rising the overall quality of life. Of course, this is true only in countries with an easy access to medical resources, and - within these countries - only for people that can afford the cost of health.
However, even in developed countries, even in wealthy populations, health behaviour seems to disregard the results of medical research and to take risks that the current state of public health could allow to avoid.This includes:
- sanitary behaviours (e.g. alimentary behaviour, physical exercise, stress); - risky behaviours (e.g. driving behaviour, sexual behaviour, risk taking at work);
- harmful behaviours (e.g. smoking, alcoholism, drug addiction, non-compliance).
It therefore appears that a comprehensive approach of public health cannot be limited to providing good health conditions and services. It also has to ensure that people actually benefit from those conditions and services. This is the challenge of prevention: promoting public health. Social psychology is a discipline that has thoroughly studied the mechanisms of formation, resistance and change in attitudes and behaviours. It can therefore offer theories, methods and results to address such compelling questions as:
- How do people understand health, and health-related problems?
- How to reduce individual risk taking?
- How to lead change in people's quality of life?
This conference will gather scholars that will address the challenge of prevention, in the hope of designing new research and new policies that can contribute to benefit from the existing resources of public health. Key themes could be:
- Healthy behaviour: Theories and applications.
- Education and health
- Perception of health risks.
- Designing health messages.
- Designing effective public health policies.
The philosophy of this conference is to propose an opportunity for questioning existing models of prevention and to developp new paths that promote health without imposing a normative model of healthy life and without threatening people's lifestyle.
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