About Lisbon (with the help of Visit Lisbon website)

The historical city full of stories to tell, where the sun shines 290 days a year and the temperature drops below 15oC in January or February and that is it. A city where you feel safe wandering around day or night, where the cuisine is dedicated to creating over a thousand ways to cook the beloved bacalhau (salted cod), and where you’ll find hotels and restaurants to suit every taste, budget and requirement. Discover Lisbon, a city full of authenticity where old customs and ancient history intermix with cultural entertainment and hi-tech innovation. Lisbon is ageless, but it loves company, as you’ll find out if you meet someone and ask them to explain, with lots of gestures and repetition, where the best place is to listen to Fado. After all, Lisbon is famous for its hospitality and the family-like way it welcomes visitors.

VISA

To enter Portugal, you may need a Passport and/or a Visa, depending on the country you live in. It is not possible to apply for a visa at the border. Attendees who need to apply for a visa must do so in their country of residence. Citizens from the European Community don’t need a Visa for entering Portugal.

Portugal is part of the Schengen Area. The following websiteshows which passport holders need to apply for a Schengen visa.

If the nationality of the passport holder is not listed, a Schengen visa is not required to enter Portugal. The Organising Committee advises attendees to obtain their visa well in advance. Please keep in mind that issuing a visa can take up to 14 days. Addresses of Portuguese embassies, consulates and other representations can be found at this website. As the page is not in English, please contact us if you have any difficulties in finding information.

Before applying to the Visa:

register for the main ESMHS Conference and pay the registration fee;book and pay for the hotel acommodation;with the invitational letter you contact the embassy where the visa can be requested.

Hotels

As Lisbon experiences a huge flux of tourism make sure you book your flight and stay in advance. There are many options of accommodation (hotels, hostels and Airbnb) depending on your budget and preferences.

The organization of the ESHMS 17th Biennial Conference ensures a special fee in the hotel 3K Europa. To benefit from the congress fee book on

To see other options near the venue, visit the following link of Booking

Public Transportation

Available soon.

Additional Information

Currency: Euro.

Weather in June: June is warm and is the perfect time to visit and see what the city has to offer. The average temperature reaches 20°C or about 60°F during the day, but average highs are 23°C (about 74°F). At night the lows average 16°C (about 61°F). Around 25 out of 30 days the temperature will be above 21°C. Must be care with the sun.

Electric voltage: electrical sockets supply electricity at 220 volts. If you plug in an appliance that is compatible with multiple voltages, then an adapter is all you need.

REGISTRATION

The online registration form is now available. REGISTER HERE.

FEES

ESHMS MEMBERS

High Income Countries Low Income Countries

Full Student Full Student

Standard €225 €150 €175 €120

On-site €355 €260 €295 €230

NON ESHMS MEMBERS

High Income Countries Low Income Countries

Full Student Full Student

Standard €345 €270 €295 €240

On-site €475 €380 €415 €350

1) To benefit from the ESHMS membership discount, participants will be required to upload the membership proof. To apply for membership, please click here.

2) The registration fee is divided according to countries' income classification (high income and low income countries). To verify which category your country belongs to, please click here. Upper-middle income countries are covered by the high income countries fees and lower-middle income countries are covered by the low income countries.

3) The student status include bachelor, master and doctoral students at the time of registration.

4) Full status participants in the condition of unemployment can benefit from a fee discount (the amount to pay is equal to student fees). During registration participants will be required to upload a stamped declaration issued by the competent official authority testifying this condition at the date of registration.

5) The fee includes:

1. Scientific Pogramme

2. Congress Documentation

3. Coffee breaks and lunches

4. Certificate of Attendance

4. Congress Dinner

Medicalization and pathologization: disentangling concepts, understanding contestations Session organizer(s): Sofia Aboim (PT), Pedro Vasconcelos (PT).

Medicalizing Masculinities Session organizer(s): Raffaella F Camoletto (IT).

Coping with the (bio)medicalization of birth and death: institutional practices, ethical-moral tensions and body governance

Session organizer(s): Catarina Delaunay (PT).Childbirth spatiality, reproductive citizenship, and the body Session organizer(s): Mário Santos (PT), Ekaterina Borozdina (RU).

Reprodoctive health through the life course

Session organizer(s): Karen Vanderlinden (BE).

Well-being, Technologies and Bodies: Theoretical Issues and Critical Perspectives Session organizer(s): Linda Lombi (IT), Antonio Maturo (IT).

Trust in Modern Medical Expertise: Old and New Challenges Session organizer(s): Tom Douglass (UK), Michael Calnan (UK).

Beyond socioeconomic status: Integrating intersectional approaches in health inequalities research Session organizer(s): Anna Gkiouleka (UK), Daniel La Parra (ES).

Education in the context of health inequalities: innovating theoretical approaches and empirical studies Session organizer(s): Katrijn Delaruelle (BE), Piet Bracke (BE).

Social inequality, work life balance and health Session organizer(s): Johanna Muckenhuber (AT), Hannah Volk (AT).

Does (un)employment make people sick? Session organizer(s): Małgorzata Mikucka (DE); Oliver A Becker (DE).

Capitals and health inequalities: exploring the interconnectedness of material and non-material resources for health Session organizer(s): Gerry Veenstra (CA); Thomas Abel (CH).

What role for medical doctors in health system reforms: looking for differences and similarities across countries

Session organizer(s): Jean-Louis Denis (CA), Tiago Correia (PT).

Navigating complex contemporary healthcare systems –roles and responsibilities in an age of choice Session organizer(s): Karen Willis (AU), Marit Solbjør (NO).

Health, Policy, Access to Health Services for Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers. What are the Challenges for Europe? Session organizer(s): Lia Lombardi (IT).

Healthcare access and international migration: rethinking health protection in Europe Session organizer(s): Joana Zózimo (PT), Carlo Botrugno (IT).

HIV/AIDS policy worlds in Europe: transdisciplinary perspectives on activism, citizenship and health Session organizer(s): Agata Dziuban (PL), Todd Sekuler (DE).

Organized Patient Participation in Health Care: Collective Advocacy and Representation Session organizer(s): Silke Schicktanz (DE), Aviad Raz (IL).

Online health communities as new venues of healthcare tensions and paradoxes Session organizer(s): Gregor Petrič (SL), Sara Atanasova (SL).

Gender in Prevention: Beyond the Obvious Session organizer(s): Géraldine Bloy (FR).

Negotiating the self-management imperative –transforming policy, practice and the lived experience of long term conditions Session organizer(s): Lorraine Smith (AU), Sophie Lewis (AU).

Informal caregiving: causes and consequences from several perspectives Session organizer(s): Ellen Verbakel (NL).

In between Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine: Old Tensions, Emerging Paradoxes in Health

Session organizer(s): Isabel Fernandes (PT), Alda Maria Correia (PT).

Open Call on Old Tensions, Emerging Paradoxes in Health

Session organizer(s): Fátima Alves (PT), Ana Mendonça (PT).

Note 1: session organizers are the only responsible of the content of their sessions and biographical notes.

Note 2: session organizers were allowed to present their sessions in either US or UK English given the diversity of their geographical origin.

The call for abstracts is now open to submissions that address the overall issue of tensions and paradoxes in health, notably those related to rights, knowledge, and trust. The list of all sessions is available here.

The PDF with the call for abstracts is available here.

Submission Guidelines

The following guidelines are provided to assist you to submit your abstract. Please follow the instructions when completing the abstract form.

1. Abstracts can only be submitted online in the following platform: http://leading.eventkey.pt/geral/inserirresumo.aspx?evento=7&formulario=14

2. Submissions and presentations are allowed only in English (either BrE or AmE).

3. Abstract submission consists of:

- Presentation title (it should be as brief as possible, but long enough to indicate clearly the nature of the study: 120 characters maximum, spaces included).

- Author(s) name(s) and contact(s). After completing the information about the corresponding author, please provide the system with details of presenting author and co-authors, if applicable. Note: All authors (corresponding and co-authors) wanting to attend the Conference, must register and pay their registration.

- Indication of the session that the abstract is submitted to.

- Preferred presentation format: oral or poster.

- Abstract (the content should be organised to provide clear information as to background, objectives, methods (if applicable), results (if applicable), discussion/conclusions. 500 words maximum, spaces not included)

4. There is a limit of two presentations (oral and/or poster) for a single author, even if in co-authorship.

Review Process

1. All abstracts are reviewed for their quality and relevance, anonymously, by the respective Session Organiser(s).

2. The review process of oral presentations and posters is autonomous and runs in parallel.

3. Session Organiser(s) will rank the accepted abstracts.

4. Abstract notifications: Corresponding authors will be notified by e-mail about the status of their submitted abstract. The three categories are: accepted, transferred to poster (when the preferred presentation format is oral), or rejected.

Presentation Guidelines

As to oral sessions, the abstracts ranked in the top four will each be given 15 minutes to present; the fifth onwards turn into distributed papers (printed out and made available to attendants during sessions).

Important information

- There is no quality-based distinction, nor will the certificate of attendance differentiate between oral presentations and distributed papers. It reflects only the need to accommodate as many high-quality presentations as possible, while allowing participants to get the most out of the conference.

- In addition to the preparing of the distributed paper (that should consist of a two-page extended abstract), authors presenting a distributed paper should be prepared to make a 15 minutes oral presentation. They will be asked to do so when authors of the abstracts ranked above do not attend to the session. Presenters of oral presentations and distributed papers take equal role in the final discussion in each session.

- All accepted abstracts will be given exclusive access to the submission of full-length manuscripts in publications resulting from the conference. This work is still in progress. Please check the conference website for further information.

Important Dates

- Abstract submission opening: September 1, 2017

- Abstract Submission deadline: December 31, 2017

- Abstracts acceptance notification: February 23, 2018

- Notification of presentation day, time and room: March 16, 2018

- Authors registration deadline: March 23, 2018

Contacts

For specific information about sessions, please contact directly the respective Session Organiser(s).

For any other matter related to the submission process, please contact eshms2018@leading.pt

Introduction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=g8qdpZRW4Rk

ESHMS website: http://www.eshms.eu/

Venue website: http://iscte-iul.pt/