Christine MANEZ

• Country : FRANCE
• christinecol@wanadoo.fr
• Occupation : Student
• EUROPHAMILI Training centre : Lodz - Poland
• Promotion : 2004

Background

I am actually a student in the National School for Public Health in Rennes (Bretagne), to become a hospital manager in 2005. I have just started my second year in school.



At university, I have studied political science, specialised in international relations, as I have always thought of working in partnership with foreign countries. In that purpose, I studied as well english, russian and spanish.



For 15 years, I have been the manager of a ?convalescent home?, a rather small unit in which people were coming to rest for a month or two after a heavy disease, surgery, or even a mental disease. Before I started to work in hospital, I have been running a hotel-restaurant for five years.



I have always been a conviced european, and my objective is to work in international relations, more particularly in Europe.



The Europhamili program will give me the best opportunity of knowing more about european public health policies. I am sure that collaboration between hospitals is going to increase to be able to harmonize a european project. It is a major stake in the enlarged Europe. I am very interested as well by visiting Poland, one of the most important new countries coming in Europe.



I also wish to meet other students from different countries and learn more about their functionning, to be able to work with them and create a network.



Apart from the work, I also like travelling and discovering new cultures : I must admit that I am very curious on that subject. I am as well very fond of cinema, theatre and litterature.

Feedback

"My three month EUROPHAMILI session in Lodz was a fantastic experience, on both personal and professional sides. The teaching units allowed me to learn about health management and the different European systems.On a personal point of view, this training was very rich for me: meeting a lot of different people, trainees and trainers, from Western and Eastern Europe helped me to develop a useful network.I feel now able to start and build a transnational cooperation in the hospital where I am working.Christine Manez (France), trainee on the 2004 Lodz (Poland) course "

Publication(s)

Crisis management in Lödz : a new department in the Centre for Health Promotion

The study takes place in the frame of Europhamili session in the “Centre for Health Improvement”, situated in the centre of Lödz, Poland. It is divided in two parts, tobacco addiction and crisis intervention – this second part having started its activity on 2004 April 1st .

The main goal of our study is to analyze the management of health promotion and intervention in individual crisis in the community ( Lödz area).
Through meetings, interviews and analysis of datas, we established the background of health promotion and crisis intervention related to real situations in Poland and Lödz. We used case studies of psychological intervention in crisis situation according to the reasons.

Our study of management of the Centre for Health Improvement is focused on three different levels : professional, institutional and community. The results allow us to compare the experience between a different organisation (the crisis intervention centre in Krakow) and the way it is realized in both Moldova and France.

From an external point of view, we analyze the managerial organisation and the quality of psychological services provided in the centre and make some suggestions for the future.