Invitation to National Consultation on Health care and Health Mediation for Migrants
The National Institute of Public Health and
the International Organization for Migration kindly invite you to
ROUND TABLE
“Health Care of Migrants and the Role of Health Mediators”
on Monday 29 May 2017, from 9:00 to 14:30,
at the National Institute of Public Health at Zaloška cesta 29, main conference room ( 3rd floor), Ljubljana, Slovenia
In light of the transitioning to the establishment of the electronic personal health records (E-PHR) piloted within the IOM/EC Re-Health project “Support Member States under particular migratory pressure in their response to health related challenges” the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are organizing a round table “Health Care of Migrants and the Role of Cultural Mediators in Slovenia”.
The Re-Health project aims at contributing to the improved capacity of EU Member States under particular migratory pressure (Greece, Croatia, Slovenia and Italy) to help address health-related issues of arriving migrants. The project is making use of as well as expanding the already established brochures “Handbook for Health Professionals” (HPs) and “Personal Health Record” (PHR) to check the health status/health needs of the arriving refugees and other migrants.
The objective of the round table is to present the achievements of the project in Slovenia, address challenges related to the access to health care services by asylum seekers as well as to discuss the role and importance of engaging cultural mediators in the provision of quality and accessible health care services.
DRAFT AGENDA
9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 10:00 Welcoming addresses
Chief Physician Ivan Eržen, Director, National Institute of Public Health
Mojca Gobec, Director General, Ministry of Health, Directorate for Public Health
Iva Perhavec, Officer in Charge, International Organization for Migration Slovenia
10:00 – 11:30
Moderators: Evita Leskovšek and Roumyana Petrova-Benedict
Public health view from the perspective of vulnerability
Evita Leskovšek, MD, National Institute of Public Health
Re-health: Context and overview
Roumyana Petrova-Benedict and Elena Val, IOM Regional Office in Brussels
Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX): Evaluating the level of integration of migrants in health care in Slovenia
Sara Pistotnik
Humanitarian health care of asylum seekers in Slovenia 2016/2017
Dimitar Anakiev, MD, Clinic for migrants
Pro-bono clinic for migrants
Aleksander Doplihar, MD, Pro-bono clinic
Health mediation and experience from the field
Samar Zughool, Abdelhakim Asnabla, Reza Shadani, health mediators, National Institute of Public Health
11:30 – 12:30 LUNCH
12:30 – 14:30 Interactive section with participants
Presentation of other activities and programs for health care of migrants in Slovenia
Suggestions and initiatives
Please submit you application for the round table at http://anketa.nijz.si/a/122300, by noon, Thursday, 25 May 2017 at the latest. Please kindly share this invitation with persons who might be interested to join the round table.
The event will be held in Slovene and English language. Consecutive translation will be provided.
The event is co‐funded by EC Directorate-General for Health & Food Safety (DG SANTE).