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Each year, the Slovak Academy of Sciences<\/a>\u00a0(SAS) organizes a national ‘Week of Science and Technology’ – an event devoted to popularization of domestic scientific research. As part of this years’ edition of the event, the SAS Institute of Ethnology invited two P J Safarik university<\/a> scholars, prof. Andrea Madarasova Geckova <\/a>(our present co\/editor in chief) and Andrej Belak,<\/a> MSc.,\u00a0\u00a0 to discuss the most persistent ‘Myths on bodies and health of the Roma’ in Slovakia and beyond. During their one hour long entry, the presenters first reviewed the state-of-the-art evidence-based arguments against views such as that all risky behaviours are more common among the segregated Roma, that such bahaviours or specific genes might explain substantial part of the health-status gap between Roma and general populations, as well as that all participation in the maintenance of health-exposures on the part of the segregated Roma themselves could be reasonably considered voluntary. In a lively follow-up discussion the themes were then extended also towards related methodological issues such as convenient criteria for assessing quality of research and evidence by policy-makers or the dilemmas regarding operationalizing the concept of ethnicity in health research in general.<\/p>\n You can find more information on the work on marginalised Roma populations here<\/a>. General information about the work of the CoHeReNt Network can be found by clicking here<\/a>. Have a look at our most recent articles on Roma health here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here <\/a>and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Picture credit Each year, the Slovak Academy of Sciences\u00a0(SAS) organizes a national ‘Week of Science and Technology’ – an event devoted to popularization of domestic scientific research. As part of this years’ edition of the event, the SAS Institute of Ethnology invited two P J Safarik university scholars, prof. Andrea Madarasova Geckova (our present… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":1865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[500,1028,759,799,1029],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editors","category-social-inequalities","tag-kosice","tag-minority","tag-roma","tag-slovakia","tag-social-inequalities-in-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFurther information on the event (in Slovak) and some pictures can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n