:. National Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia
National Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia
The National Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia is a government agency accountable and responsible for public health promotion at the national level. The National Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia is interested in the following work areas: Alcohol, Child Health, Communicable Diseases, Drugs and substance Abuse, Environmental Health, Food Policy, gender, Health Impact Assessment, Health Systems, HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Tobacco.
In the context of the project 'Capacity Building for health promotion in Central and Eastern Europe', the institute elaborated a brief profile of the situation with respect to health promotion in Slovenia : Health promotion in Slovenia as well a Capacity Plan for health promotion.
Contact details
National Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia Centre for Health Promotion Trubarjeva 2 1000 Ljubljana
Helena Koprivnikar Analyst Researcher Tel. : +386 1 2441 469 Fax : +386 1 2441 447 Mail :
CAPACITY BUILDING FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH PROMOTION IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE CAMHEE - Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Enlarged EU DAFNE - Data Food Networking EAAD 2 - European Alliance Against Depression EHNIS 2 EUPRIS - Mentally Ill or Disordered Persons in European Prison Systems EUROPE FOR PATIENTS GENDEP HEALTH FACIL HIA NMAC - Health Impact Assessment POMONA 2
- Expert name: Mrs Mojca Gabrijelčič Blenkuš - Institute/organization : Insitute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia - Contact details: Trubarjeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana - Email:
- Phone: + 386 1 2441406 - Fax: + 386 1 2441535 - Presentation of the expert:
Mojca Gabrijelčič Blenkuš is the head of the Health Promotion Centre at the Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia. Her special interest are nutrition and health promotion where she has been mostly involved in research and program development, especially for children and adolescent.
- Most recent professional experience: She participated also in the national nutrition policy development, within the health in all policies approach. She is WHO national counterpart for nutrition and a member of Nutrition and Physical Activity Network of the EC. She is a teaching assistant at the Medical faculty, University of Ljubljana.
- Education: Medical doctor, specialist in Public Health
- Areas of work: nutrition, health promotion
- International publications:
Gabrijelčič Blenkuš M, Zakotnik J, Lock K (2004). Health impact assessment. Implementing the CAP in Slovenia after Accession. Eurohealth, 10(1) 17-20.
Schaefer Elinder L, Lock K, Gabrijelčič Blenkuš M (2006). Public health, food and agriculture policy in European Union. In: Stahl T, Wismar M, Ollila E, Lahtinen E, Leppo K, eds. Health in all policies: prospects and potentials. Ministry of Social Afairs and Health, Finland: 93-110.
- Expert name: Ms Helena Jeriček - Institute/organization : Institute of Public Helath of the Republic of Slovenia - Contact details:
- Email:
- Phone: +386 1 2441486 - Fax: +386 1 2441535 - Presentation of the expert: Helena Jeriček is an independent researcher, national coordinator for HBSC and national coordinator for health promotion (WHO).
- Most recent professional experience: She is working in an interdisciplinary research team carrying out: research of health determinants, indicators and different mental disorders (depression, pathological gambling, etc.), health promotion, mental health promotion and mental disorder prevention, preparation of health promotion materials and workshops, for different target groups and evaluation of health promotion materials.
- Education: PhD
- Areas of work: health promotion, mental health, health determinants, evaluation.
- International publications:
JERIČEK, Helena, ČEBAŠEK-TRAVNIK, Zdenka, DERNOVŠEK, Mojca Zvezdana. Patološko hazardiranje na slovenskem : anketiranje psihiatrov = The slovenian psychiatrists' opinion on pathological gambling in their patients : a survey. Zdrav. vars., 2005, letn. 44, št. 3, str. 127-133. [COBISS.SI-ID 1440997] JERIČEK, Helena, KOŠIR, Manca, KORDEŠ, Urban. Condensation nuclei - a fundament for community building. Journal of organisational transformation & social change, 2005, letn. 2, št. 3, str. 237-253. [COBISS.SI-ID 6512457]
- Expert name: Mrs Eva Stergar
- Institute/organization : University Medical Centre, Clinical Institute of Occupational, Traffic and Sports Medicine - Contact details: Poljanski nasip 58, 1000 Ljubljana - Email:
- Phone: +386 1 5222695 - Fax: +386 1 5222478
- Presentation of the expert: Eva Stergar is a workplace health promotion counselor at the Clinical Institute of Occupational, Traffic and Sports Medicine with a wealth of experience in the field of the health promotion/health education and project leadership. She studied psychology. After her graduation she became a researcher at the University Development Centre. She obtained master's degree at the field of educational psychology in 1989. In 1990 she moved to the National Institute of Public Health where she took over health education and health promotion, acting as a head of the health education department and after the reorganization as the first head of the health promotion centre. She was responsible for planning, co-ordination, implementation and reporting on health promotion/health education activities in Slovenia. From 1992 till 2004 she was a national co-ordinator of the Slovenian part of the European Network of Health Promoting Schools. She is a principal investigator for the Slovenian part of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) from 1994 on. She introduced a WHO Cross-National Survey Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) in 2001 in Slovenia and was PI till May 2005. In 2004 she moved to the Clinical Institute of Occupational, Traffic and Sports Medicine with a clear interest to develop workplace health promotion. In 2005 – 2006 she was director of Phare project Lifelong Learning for healthy work and life; she was responsible person for a WHP part of Phare project “Development of Slovene System of Health and Safety at Work” in 2000. As a contact person for Slovenian NCO for ENWHP she co-ordinated Slovenian part of EU funded projects: Work Health II., DragonFly and MoveEurope.
- Most recent professional experience:
- Education: Msc, BA Psychology
- Areas of work: workplace health promotion, health promotion.
- International publications:
KOKKEVI, Anna, RICHARDSON, Clive, FLORESCU, Silvia, KUZMAN, Marina, STERGAR, Eva. Psychosocial correlates of substance use in adolescence : a cross-national study in six European countries. Drug alcohol depend.. [Print ed.], 2007, 86(1): 67-74. TOMORI, Martina, ZALAR, Bojan, KORES-PLESNIČAR, Blanka, ZIHERL, Slavko, STERGAR, Eva. Smoking in relation to psychosocial risk factors in adolescents. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 2001(10); 2: 143-150.
STERGAR, Eva. Družina, vrstniki in šola-pomembna okolja za zdravje mladih = Family, peers and school - three important settings for pupils' health. V: DODIČ-FIKFAK, Metoda (ur.), MOLAN, Marija (ur.). Mladi in delo : znanstvena monografija. Ljubljana: Klinični center, Klinični inštitut za medicino dela, prometa in športa: = University Medical Centre, Institute of Occupational, Traffic and Sports Medicine, 2006: 93-114.
STERGAR, Eva. Z zdravjem povezano vedenje mladih, ki obiskujejo srednje šole = Health behaviour of secondary pupils. V: DODIČ-FIKFAK, Metoda (ur.), MOLAN, Marija (ur.). Mladi in delo : znanstvena monografija. Ljubljana: Klinični center, Klinični inštitut za medicino dela, prometa in športa: = University Medical Centre, Institute of Occupational, Traffic and Sports Medicine, 2006: 115-145.
BJARNASON, Thoroddur, STERGAR, Eva. Family structure and adolescent cigarette smoking in eleven European country. Addiction, 2003; 98: 815-824.
STERGAR, Eva, BEVC-STANKOVIĆ, M., DIZDAREVIĆ, S. Movement for a people-friendly tobacco law in the Republic of Slovenia. V: LU, Rushan (ur.), MACKAY, Judith (ur.), NIU, Shiru (ur.), PETO, Richard (ur.). Tobacco: The Growing Epidemic : Proceedings of the Tenth World Conference on Tobacco or Health, 24-28 August 1997, Beijing, China. London; Berlin; Heidelberg; New York; Barcelona; Hong Kong; Milan; Paris; Singapore; Tokyo: Springer-Verlag, 2000: 619-620.
- Expert name: Ms Tanja Kamin - Institute/organization : University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Studies - Contact details: Kardeljeva ploščad 5, 1000 Ljubljana - Email:
- Phone: +386 4 972747 - Fax:
- Presentation of the expert:
Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Ljubljana
- Education:
· 1998 BSc in Media and communication studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; · 2001 MSc in Media and communication studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; · 2004 PhD in Social Sciences on Health promotion, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Areas of work: health promotion, mental health promotion, mediatization of health, health communication interventions.
- International publications:
KAMIN, Tanja, TIVADAR, Blanka. Display the problem, offer a solution: using youngsters food-relating concerns for successful communication interventions for healthy eating. In: RUBINELLI, Sara (ur.), HAES, Joachim (ur.). Tailoring health messages : bridging the gap between social and humanistic perspectives on health communication. Lugano: Universita della Svizzera Itaiana, Facolta di Scienze della Comunicazione: HCC-lab, 2005, pp: 79-83. KAMIN, Tanja. Mental Health Promotion: a perspective from Slovenia. Journal of public mental health. 2006, Vol. 5, issue 1, pp. 24-28. KAMIN, Tanja. Mediatization of health and "citizenship-consumership" (con)fusion. In: HÖIJER, Birgitta (ur.). Ideological horizons in media and citizen discourses : theoretical and methodological approaches. Göteborg: Nordicom, 2007, pp: 119-130. KAMIN, Tanja, MARUŠIČ, Andrej. Exploring and developing the relevant mental health information systems in the new member states. V: LAVIKAINEN, Juha (ur.), FRYERS, Tom (ur.), LEHTINEN, Ville (ur.). Improving mental health information in Europe : proposal of the Mindful project. Helsinki: Stakes, 2006, pp: 93-106.
