10th MVF Conference “Dare to Theory”

07.12.2021 20:10

The specialist magazine “Monitor Healthcare Research”, which has seen itself as a link between science and practice for 14 years, is organizing its 10th specialist congress with the topic “Daring to theory” on December 7th and 8th, 2021 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. . German health services research has come a long way in the last 20 years - 14 of which have been accompanied by our journal: it first agreed on and published memoranda on methods, held its own congresses, was massively supported by the Innovation Fund, in short: it has established itself . That's a good thing. Nevertheless, there is a growing feeling that methods are not everything and, above all, cannot explain everything that healthcare researchers are supposed to research and explain in their very broad field of work. This is perhaps because health services research has so far been rather undertheorized, as the two professors Braithwaite and Mannion explain in the cover interview of MVF 03/21. Now Professor Holger Pfaff, one of the pioneers of health services research in Germany, added in the following cover interview (MVF 04/21) that the two of them are rightly demanding a theory. Why now? Pfaff's answer: Because theories "unlike methods were not necessary at the beginning of the development of our scientific field" in order to initiate concrete research approaches and to transfer them into the reality of care. What is important, Pfaff continues, is “to understand cause and effect and the causal relationships that emerge here and then to formulate these as a theory.”

The specialist journal “Monitor Health Services Research”, which has seen itself as a link between science and practice for 14 years, will be holding the first part of its online congress on the topic of “Prioritization Catalog of Health Services Research” on December 13, 2022 in cooperation with the IGES Institute.

Who is the event aimed at?

The event is aimed at managers and those responsible:

Self-help / patient associations
Health insurance (GKV / PKV)
Institutions of self-government
Patient representatives
Doctors and pharmacists
Health Professions
Supply manager
Federal and state politics
Pharmaceutical and medical technology companies
Service providers and consultants

Greetings from the editor

Ladies and Gentlemen
Dear Colleagues,

What is the actual status of the theory(s) of health services research? We want to analyze this theoretically in the first program block of the 10th MVF Congress “Dare Theory”, but then very practically in the second block using the example of some selected pilotage systems that were supported by the Innovation Fund.

Therefore, take an active part in our 10th specialist congress. Bring your perspective and your position and join in the discussion. The congress was actually supposed to take place in the AOK Nordost event rooms in Berlin, However, the current incidence figures force us to use a purely online format. The congress will be chaired with me by Prof. Dr. Dr. Alfred Holzgreve.

With kind regards
Your professor Dr. Reinhold Roski
Publisher “Monitor Health Services Research”

Congress program

Contact

If you have any questions about the workshop congress, please contact Anke Heiser

per email to [email protected] or
by phone at 0228 – 76 38 280-30

Speakers & Lectures

Here you will find (in chronological order) the lectures including audio files that were held at the online congress “Dare Theory” (December 7th and 8th, 2021). MVF makes lectures such as audio files available open access in order to promote theory development in health services research. Attention: The server error that prevented PDFs from being displayed for the last few days has been fixed.

Speakers
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Roski, MVF editor