[Discussion] LIFE STYLES, HEALTH AND MORTALITY - CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITATION FOR PARTI CIPATION”

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

LIFE STYLES, HEALTH AND MORTALITY - CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITATION FOR 
PARTICIPATION”
The concept of “life style” has gained increasing significance in the 
health literature. What constitutes life styles? Is life style 
consultancy becoming an emerging profession? Who are these professionals 
and what do they say? What can we say about life styles and risk factors 
for cardiovascular health? What can we say about conditions that lead 
people to engage in risk behaviors such as smoking, eating high-fat and 
high cholesterol diets? What can we say about the perception of too 
little physical activity as a health risk? What constitutes health 
protective behavior under different social and cultural contexts? What 
can we say about the concept of “quality of life”? Morbidity and 
mortality related to life styles. Leisure time and issues related to 
health. This session aims to create a comprehensive picture of the 
different conceptualizations related to the idea of life styles, and 
also make a global assessment of quantitative data on morbidity and 
mortality figures related to life style patterns. Social consequences of 
the collapse of buildings and other man-made accidents will also be 
examined. Please find updated information as regards the meeting at the 
IFSSH website http://www.ifssh.net.
The International Forum for Social Sciences and Health (IFSSH) welcomes 
applications from scholars, administrators, researchers, interested 
parties, international agencies, national and international research 
institutions and students for participation in the 2005 World Congress 
“HEALTH CHALLENGES OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM”. The 2005 World Congress 
aims to realize a universal platform for reflections and forward-looking 
discussions in all important areas that fall under the health social 
science agenda. The world congress will host workshop sessions under the 
following themes: Accidents and disabilities; Adolescent health; 
Bioethics; Bioterror and weapons of mass destruction; Child health, 
development and child rights; Health consequences of war; Communicating 
health knowledge and behavior; Controversies of diet and nutrition; 
Developing economies, migration and emerging health issues; Ecohealth: 
climate change, health consequences of environmental deterioration and 
environmental policies; Ethnobotany and healing; Giving birth: new 
meanings, new statistics; Health and disease in world myths, scripts and 
literature; Health clubs and the new aesthetics of health; Health 
equity; Health social science research methodology; Health sector reform 
and health insurance; Health, medicine and colonialism; Human rights, 
HIV/AIDS and the new epidemics; Infectious diseases; Issues in rural 
health and disease; Life styles; Living with pain; Local traditions of 
healing and shamans; New challenges: smoking, addictions and eating 
disorders; Politics of pharmacueticals; Redefining old age; Reproductive 
health; Social history of health and disease; Social science education 
for health sciences; Sociology of dental health; Suicides and cross 
cultural issues in mental health; The economics of well being; The 
future of hospitals and patient care; The psychology of violence; 
Violence as a public health issue; and Social aspects and prevention of 
world blindness. Please find updated information as regards the meeting 
at the IFSSH website http://www.ifssh.net. We invite you to join this 
interdisciplinary gathering of the experiences and perspectives of 
social scientists and health specialists for a crucial assessment of the 
human condition at the onset of the new millennium.
Prof. Dr. Akile Gürsoy
IFSSH Secretary General
Head, Department of Anthropology
Yeditepe University
Congress Correspondence:
2005 IFSSH Congress Center
Department of Anthropology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Yeditepe University
Kay?s,dag(?,34755 Istanbul TÜRKI.YE
Tel: (+ 90) 216-578 07 27)
Fax: (+ 90) 216-578 08 99)
E-mail: ifssh.2005@yeditepe.edu.tr
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