ABSTRACT BOOK
Welcome to the 7th Novo symposium 25.-26.11.2013 in Helsinki
Sustainable Health Care
Innovative health care organizations
Novo vision
The vision of the 7th NOVO-symposium is “a Nordic Model for sustainable systems in the health care sector”. The core idea of NOVO is that we want to link together development and research of the three aspects of NOVO-triangle: work environment, efficiency and quality of care.
Novo Symposium 2013
Nordic countries, as well as other countries are struggling with economy crisis and increasing costs of health and social care. New innovations are needed for more cost-effective services. Large organizational reforms have been done in most Nordic countries in order to increase efficiency, integration of care or quality of care. What is typical to all countries, too, is lack of personnel and severe problems in well-being of personnel. In major organizational changes worker well-being is not automatically improved, in many cases result is opposite. On the other hand lean management or process organizations are seen as answers. What is frequently typical to development is, that efficiency, quality of care and work environment are developed separately. NOVO sees it important to combine these aspects.
In the symposium we welcome researchers from Nordic countries to present their work. The disciplines and topic may be from a wide range. National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) are organizing the conference.
Topics of Novo 2013
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Innovative health care
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Major organizational changes
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Sustainable management and leadership
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Lean management and sustainability
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Care integration
Not limited to suggested topics – other options are welcome. However, it is essential that at least two corners of NOVO-triangle are included (one being work environment).
Instructions regarding abstracts
The abstracts should be in English and contain a maximum of 350 words apart from title, authors and
affiliations, and should contain:
1. Title, names of authors, name of presenting author bolded, affiliations of authors with indications in the same order.
2. Introduction, Material and methods, Results, Conclusions.
3. Tables or figures are not accepted.
4. The title should not have abbreviations and in the text they should be spelled out and explained the first time they are used.
Presenters are asked to indicate whether they prefer an oral- or a poster presentation, however, the scientific committee attains the right to decide. Please submit the abstract as a Word (or rtf) file, electronically to info.palt@thl.fi with “Abstract NOVO” in the subject line no later than September the 1st.
The scientific committee retains the right to decline submitted abstracts if they do not fulfill the above criteria, or general scientific standards. Further information concerning presentations will be provided upon acceptance (October 11).
Place
NOVO 2013 will be held in Helsinki, Finland at Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH).
Program (minor changes possible)
Day 1: Registration 9.00- 10.00, Conference sessions 10.00–17.00, dinner 19.00.
Day 2: 8.30–16.00.
Information on hotels and social program in the second announcement
Conference Fee approximately 300 € which includes coffee, lunches, dinner and social program.
Further information
More information about the symposium: www.thl.fi/novo or www.novo-network.dk & Timo Sinervo (timo.sinervo@thl.fi, +358 29 524 7231), Marjukka Laine (marjukka.laine@ttl.fi, +358 30 474 7537)
Important dates
Abstract submission, deadline: 1st September
Decision of abstract acceptance: 11th October
Deadline for registration: 18th October
Hotel reservation: information in the second announcement
The local organizers
Timo Sinervo, THL (National Institute for Health and Welfare)
Marjukka Laine, FIOH (Finnish Institute of Occupational Health)
We look forward to seeing you in Helsinki!