Health of School-Age Children
Conference venue: Grand Hotel Reykjavík, Iceland
October 8-10, 2008
Detailed Programme with direct access to individual presentations
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
18:30 Registration
Welcome session and refreshments on the invitation of the Minister of Health
Thursday, October 9, 2008
08:00 Registration
Chairperson: Guðjón Magnússon, Professor of Public Health, Reykjavík UniversityOpening ceremony
09:00 Welcome Geir Gunnlaugsson, Conference Organizer
Nick Spencer, ESSOP President
Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, Minister of Health
09:20 Early childhood development and school readiness
Clyde Hertzman, Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership, Department of
Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
10:10 Coffee break
Session 1: School readiness
10:40 Age maturation and school performance
Júlíus Björnsson, Director of Educational Testing Institute, Reykjavík
11:10 Social influences on early childhood and school readiness
Nick J. Spencer, University of Warwick, UK
11:40 Voices of Icelandic Children
Margrét María Sigurðardóttir, Children´s Ombudsman, Iceland
12:10 Lunch
Session 2: Late childhood and early adolescence
Chairperson: Ragnar Grímur Bjarnason, Chairman of the Icelandic Pediatric Association
13:15 Research, policy and practice for adolescents
Inga Dóra Sigfúsdóttir, Dean of School of Health and Education, Reykjavík University
13:50 Adolescent at risk in a global environment
Thórólfur Thórlindsson, Director of the National Public Health Institute, Reykjavík
14:30 Health indicators for school aged children
Mitch Blair, Consultant Reader in Paediatrics and Child Public Health, Northwick Park Hospital, London, UK
15:00 Coffee break
15:20 Poster session – Chairperson: Nick Spencer, University of Warwick
15:50 Panel discussion with speakers: Determinants for health of young children
Moderator: Guðjón Magnússon, Professor of Public Health, Reykjavík University
16:50 End of day
18:30 Reception the Reykjavík City Hall at the invitation of the City Mayor
Friday, October 10, 2008
Session 3: Developmental screening of young children
Chairperson: Anna Björg Aradóttir, Chief Nursing Officer and Chief of Division of Clinical Quality and Public Health, Directorate of Health
08:30 Identifying children likely to have school problems
Francis Glascoe, Professor of Paediatrics, Vanderbilt University, USA
09:25 Identification of young children with developmental problems in Iceland
Geir Gunnlaugsson, Professor of Public Health, Reykjavík Unversity and Director of the Centre for Child Health Services, Iceland
10:00 Coffee
Session 4: School health services
10:25 School health services – what for?
Olivier Duperrex, Medical Director, Unité des Éscoles en Santé du Canton de Vaud, Switzerland
10:55 6H-cube for health promotion in Icelandic compulsory schools
Ragnheiður Ósk Erlendsdóttir, Head of Section of School Health Services, Centre for Child Health Services, Iceland
11:25 380° Prevention that works! LazyTown ‐ The Only Brand dedicated to Kids HealthMagnús Scheving, Creator and CEO of LazyTown
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Poster session – Chairperson: Mitch Blair, Consultant Reader in Paediatrics and Child Public Health, Northwick Park Hospital, London, UK
Session 5: Health for the future
Chairperson: Gülbin Gökçay, İstanbul University, Institute of Child Health Çapa, Istanbul, Turkey.
13.30 School performance and health in youth
Anders Hjern, Professor, Centre for Epidemiology (EpC) , Stockholm, Sweden
13:50 Why we need to tackle climate change as a matter of urgency
Tony Waterston, Newcasle upon Tyne, UK
Session 6: Free papers
Chairperson: Gyða Haraldsdóttir, Psychologist, Head of the Section for Development and Behaviour, Centre for Child Health Services, Reykjavík
14:15 Recent developments on school health services in Turkey
Serpil Uğur Baysal, Institute of Child Health, Istanbul University, Turkey
Anthony Tam, Southwark Children´s Services, London, UK
14:41 How to handle death in the school
Stella Tsitoura, 2nd Pediatric Clinic, University of Athens, Greece
Gonca Yılmaz,, Department of Pediatrics, Keçiören Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
Selda Bülbül Hızel, Kırıkkale University, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Igor Radziewicz‐Winncki, Department of Health Promotion and Environmental Nursing, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
15:35 Coffee
15:55 Panel Discussion: Future of school health services
16:45 ESSOPs Annual General Meeting
18:30 End of Conference
20:30 Conference dinner in Kaffi Reykjavík, Vesturgata 2, Reykjavík
