Public Health in East and Southeast Europe: Growth, Inequality and the State. Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
9th IOS Annual Conference 2022
The conference is open to public. Registration needed:
Program
Opening
Greetings by Ulf BRUNNBAUER, Hartmut LEHMANN (both IOS Regensburg)
Olga POPOVA (IOS Regensburg), Gergana MIRCHEVA (Sofia University/Humboldt Fellow at IOS): Introduction into the conference themes
Keynote
Dora VARGHA (HU Berlin): Defining success: inequalities, unintended consequences and the endings of epidemics in Eastern Europe
Panel 1: International Influence and Networks
Chair: Ulf BRUNNBAUER (Regensburg)
Christian PROMITZER (Graz): National self-assessment, imperial fields of influence and international networks: Conflicting demands in the foundation of public health initiatives in South-Eastern Europe up to the First World War
Evguenia DAVIDOVA (Portland): National Emissaries for Preventive Healthcare: Visiting Nurses in Interwar Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes/Yugoslavia
Vedran DUANČIĆ (Klagenfurt): Alma-Ata, Yugoslavia: The Intertwined Local and Global Meanings of Primary Health Care in Late Socialism
Coffee Break
Panel 2: Health and Political Environment
Chair: Petru NEGURA (Regensburg)
Anelia KASSABOVA (Sofia): Ideas and ambitious promises, structural constraints and failures – the contradictory Bulgarian socialist demographic politics
Jan AREND (Tübingen): Stress and the Transformation in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, 1960s-2000s
Ilia NADAREISHVILI (Tbilisi) and Karsten LUNZE (Boston): COVID-19 pandemic response in volatile political and geopolitical environment – Georgian experience
Lunch
Panel 3: Vaccination Resistance
Chair: Olga POPOVA (Regensburg)
Josip GLAURDIĆ and Christophe LESSCHAEVE (Luxembourg): The Politics of Covid-19 Vaccination Resistance in Southeast Europe
Mrike ALIU (Pristina) and Ha Thi Hong NGUYEN: Factors behind Covid-19 vaccine acceptance among the disadvantaged population in Kosovo (Roma, Ashkali, Egyptian) tbc
Elizaveta PRONKINA et al. (Paris): The Covid-19 Curtain: Can Past Communist Regimes Explain the Vaccination Divide in Europe?
Coffee Break
Panel 4: Health Inequalities
Chair: Sinem AYHAN (Regensburg)
Daniela KOLEVA (Sofia): How can care produce inequality? The case of the ‘active fighters against fascism and capitalism’ in Bulgaria
Radina VUČETIĆ (Belgrade): “Everybody get vaccinated!”: Smallpox epidemics in Yugoslavia in 1972 (online)
Tijana KARIĆ (Marburg) and Vladimir MIHIĆ (Novi Sad): Health inequalities in time of Covid-19: The case of Roma in Serbia
Panel 5: State Health Care Systems
Chair: Heike KARGE (Regensburg)
Martin IVANOV (Sofia) and Matthias MORYS (York): Did public health and living standards actually improve under state socialism? Evidence from Bulgaria, 1944–1989
Viola LÁSZLÓFI (Paris/Budapest): Undisciplined Patients, Regulated Medical Authority? Changing Norms of Patient Care in State Socialist Hungary
Coffee Break
Panel 6: Trust in Public Health
Chair: Hartmut LEHMANN (Regensburg)
Florie Miftari BASHOLLI et al. (Pristina): Trust in healthcare and other institutions during Covid-19 pandemic in Kosovo
Alari PURJU (Tallinn): Governance of the Health Care System and its impact on economy during the Covid-19 in Estonia
Lunch
Panel 7: Disadvantaged Groups
Chair: Gergana MIRCHEVA (Sofia/Regensburg)
Kristina POPOVA (Sofia): Ergotherapy and/or unpaid work in the closed institutions for children with disabilities in Bulgaria in the 1950-es – 1960-es
Galina GONCHAROVA (Sofia), Teodora KARAMELSKA (Sofia): The Care for People with Dementia in Bulgaria: Between Over-Responsibility to the Family and Distrust in Public Health Services