Havana, Cuba_ Working for the health of the human being, is the motto that presides over the VIII International Conference of Health Psychology (Psicosalud 2017), which will be officially inaugurated today in Havana.

The Conference Center will venue the forum until November 3 and gathers some 700 delegates from more than 20 nations, announced Dr. Alfredo Cobián, president of the Cuban Society of Health Psychology and the organizing committee.

Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, Peru, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Ecuador, South Africa, Colombia, Spain, Puerto Rico, the United States, and Cuba are among the countries attending the event.

Psychology, well-being and life quality, Family and  Community Health, Violence; Training of human resources in the specialty; Psychology and alternative medicine, and workers' health; child-youth health; Cognitive  Psychology, Neuropsychology and Neurosciences; Psycho-oncology; and Emergency Psychology and Disasters, are among the themes of the conference.

The professionals of this branch have the high responsibility to work for the development of the psychological science, to ensure the quality of their teaching and performance and, above all, to make their influence grow in the everyday life’s affairs, to which the problems of the health-disease process, in all its dimensions, do not escape, the president of the organizing committee said.

More than four decades of professional practice constitute an unobjectionable endorsement that we will know how to share with humility, with all those who decide to accompany us, to also show us everything they do, their experiences and we will learn from them, as an indispensable premise that derives from an dynamic scientific and human exchange, the professor emphasized.

Prestigious world experts from all continents will participate in this meeting of psychological knowledge and work, with a single shared distinction: Work for the health of the human being, Cobián emphasized.

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