Désolée, la page demandée n'est disponible qu'en Anglais.

Lamentablemente la página que solicita está disponible sólo en inglés.

24-26 October 2012, Vancouver, Canada

Work related aggression and violence within the health and social services sector is a major problem which diminishes the quality of working life for staff, compromises organizational effectiveness and ultimately impacts negatively on the provision and quality of care. These problems pervade both service settings and occupational groups.

Considerable attention and advancements in addressing this problem have been achieved from service and organizational perspectives nationally and internationally. Following two conferences in Amsterdam, the 3rd International Conference on Violence in the Health Sector, will take place in Vancouver, Canada, from October 24-26 2012. In addition to raising awareness the 2012 conference will provide a platform to share international developments, with a particular emphasis on best practice research and initiatives to effectively respond to the problem.

The specific aims of the conference are:

• To sensitize stakeholders to the issue of violence in the health care sector,
• To understand the manifestations and the human, professional and economic implications of violence in the health care sector,
• To promote effective sustainable initiatives and strategies to create safe environments for workers and clients in the health care sector,
• To present initiatives which respond to the problem, and have transferable learning for efforts in broader service and geographical contexts.

The WMA supports this event, as it did for the second conference (October 2010) and is part of the organizing & scientific Committee.

Call for abstracts and registration