Mental Health and Telehealth
Organizations and Professional Events
NF- through NIZ

1. The Global Challenge of Chronic Disease: "Interaction of Physical and Mental Health Risks" (September 8, 2011: New York, NY)

The Global Challenge of Chronic Disease
"Interaction of Physical and Mental Health Risks"

Event sponsored by: NGO Committee on Mental Health

September 8, 2011
New York, NY

Program:

• Introductory Remarks
  • Fatima Khan, External Relations Officer, World Health Organization UN (WHO/UN), New York
• Chronic Disease and Physical and Mental Health Treatment and Prevention
  • James J Strain, MD, Director Emeritus, Behavioral Medicine and Consultation Psychiatry Service; Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
• Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: A Global Mandate
  • Deborah Chyun, RN, PhD, Director, PhD Program in Research; Deputy Director, NYU Global; Professor, New York University College of Nursing, New York
• Alzheimer’s and Dementia—Physical and Psychological Considerations
  • Edward D Huey, MD, Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, New York
• Global Burden of Diabetes
  • Gail Melkus, RN, EdD, Director, Pless Center for Nursing Research; Florence and William Downs Professor, New York University College of Nursing, New York

(As a courtesy: when you ask about the above meeting, it might be nice if you could tell about this Web resource.)

NIGHTINGALE will contribute towards the appropriate use of the developed Telematics infrastructure across Europe by educating and training in a harmonising way nurses across Europe in the upcoming field of Nursing Informatics. 

NIGHTINGALE will cooperate with all European actions and projects in the area of training health care professionals to provide consensus curriculum development in Nursing Informatics. The most essential part and contribution of this development will be provided by the Users' Group which will comprise of nursing professionals, nursing systems professionals and health policy makers in the area of nursing education represented from all European Union members states. The Users' Group will be the monitoring and dissemination body of the work performed, where workshops and conferences will be the major platform of the consensus process. 

NIGHTINGALE will develop courseware material based on the curriculum development process using multimedia technologies. Computer based training software packages in Nursing Informatics will be the basis of the training material and the corresponding courses. CD-ROM based training and reference material will be also provided in the courses whereas the traditional booklets, teaching material and the textbooks can play an adequate role in training. 

NIGHTINGALE will disseminate all information and courseware material freely to all interested parties through the publications of the proceedings of the Conferences, through the establishment of the World Wide Web Server in Nursing Informatics for Europe, which will become a depository of Nursing Information knowledge across Europe as well as a dissemination node of Nursing Informatics throughout the European members states for the benefit and welfare of the European citizen.