21st Biennial ESHMS Conference: “Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty”

Topics

• Open sessions: these sessions are planned around a field relating to the conference theme and other themes within the field of health and medical sociology.
• Thematic sessions: these sessions were proposed for the conference around specific topics:
  • Chronic Disease, Diagnosis and Epidemiology
  • Combining employment and care for relatives on the workplace level
  • Comparative research on occupational health: new analyses and methodological developments
  • Critical Perspectives on Health, Knowledge and Society
  • Discrimination and mental health
  • Diverging trajectories and compounding inequalities: cumulative (dis)advantage in health
  • Embodied uncertainty: women’s reproductive pain, biomedical practices, and mental health
  • Family Diversities in Aging Societies: Caregiving, Health, and Participation
  • Family, Parenting and Early Childhood Development
  • Health Care Systems and Professional Practices
  • Health Policy, Governance and Public Trust
  • Inconsistent parenting and mental health
  • Inequalities in preventive practices
  • Loneliness, Social Relationships and Wellbeing
  • Medicine, Technology and Biomedical Innovation
  • Migrant mental health and healthcare utilization
  • Migration and mental health
  • Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA): advances, extensions, and applications in health research
  • Patient and public involvement in co-production in health research
  • Population Mental Health and Depression
  • Recent developments in health inequalities - is Germany on the right track?
  • Reproductive Health, Gender and Medicalization
  • Rethinking health-related stigma: lived experiences, structural processes and the reproduction of new inequalities
  • Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities
  • Social justice and the crisis of LGBTQI+ young people’s mental health
  • Spiritual care
  • Student Mental Health and Higher Education
  • Studying Medicalization in Times of Uncertainties
  • Temporal misalignment, medicalization, and mental health
  • The potential of comics and visual storytelling to improve health narrative
  • The role of Theory in cross-country studies in Medical Sociology
  • Trauma in times of uncertainty
  • Work, Employment and Occupational Health
  • Work, mobility, and mental health in times of uncertainty
  • Youth, School Contexts and Mental Health

Participation policies

• All presenting authors must register for the conference for their abstract to be listed in the program.
• ESHMS membership is encouraged. Membership offers several benefits, including a reduced conference registration fee.

In parallel with the conference, a Special Issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health titled “Mental Health in Times of Uncertainty” is being organized in collaboration with the ESHMS. This issue invites contributions that explore the social dimensions of mental health in the context of contemporary societal challenges.

All researchers working on topics related to the special issue are welcome to submit manuscripts, regardless of whether they participate in the Hamburg conference. Submissions from sociology, public health, epidemiology, psychology, and related disciplines are encouraged.

For details, please refer to the full call for papers available on:
https://journals.sagepub.com/page/sjp/call-for-papers

Registration is open .

* according to https://www.guttmacher.org/regional-and-subregional-country-classifications
** Bachelor, Master (certificate needed)

Contact E-Mail: info-eshms2026@uke.de