Lecture series: Transformation of healthcare policy - medical progress through withdrawal from the countryside?

The lecture series "Transformations and the urban-rural relationship (in North Hesse)" focuses on different facets of the socio-ecological turnaround, including the region of North Hesse. Every week, two speakers from academia and practice will give lectures and discuss with each other. One of the lectures will be dedicated to reviewing the general state of knowledge on individual aspects of the transformation. The second lecture will focus on North Hesse and discuss the challenges arising from the socio-ecological transition for the region. The aim is to work out which new urban-rural conflicts are associated with the expansion of renewable energies, which challenges the North Hessian economy is facing and that the transformation processes not only have an economic side, but are also changing the North Hessian party and media landscape

Organization: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schroeder, Head of Department Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany - Statehood in Transition

Topic on 31.01.2023: Transformation of healthcare policy - medical progress through withdrawal from the area?
Cost problems, digitalization and demographic change are currently driving forces that are changing healthcare policy and care. Hospitals are being closed, GPs are unable to find successors and care is changing, for example through health centers. Rural areas in particular are affected by a decrease in the density of care. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in particular, the current direction of German healthcare policy has come under scrutiny. How can this be counteracted and what role can digital services such as video consultations play in the transformation of healthcare policy?

Speakers:  Prof. Dr. Tanja Klenk (HSU Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Edgar Franke (Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health)