Public Health & Healthcare in the Move — Opportunities and Challenges in Research, Practice and Policy

The conference focuses on the changed situation in healthcare that raises new expectations and challenges to health professionals, patients, policy-makers, researchers etc. This involves the ways health professionals are educated and how this, in turn, influences the wider context of healthcare research, practice and policy. Among other topics, the conference aims to bring in front healthcare topics through the prism of innovation, digitalization, changing roles (e.g. patient, health professionals etc.), chronic illnesses, quality management and leadership in healthcare; workforce development, empowerment and advocacy. The target group of the conference is scholars, researchers, practitioners (e.g. nurses, physicians, technicians, pharmacists etc.) and policy-makers from different fields.