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Péter Balázs MD Ph.D. Semmelweis University Faculty of General Medicine Born: Cibakháza/Hungary 22. June 1946.
Career:
2008- Deputy Director of Institute of Public Helath, Faculty of General Medicine, Semmelweis University Budapest 2007- Head of Department of Cultural History of Medicine, Semmelweis University Budapest, Faculty of Health Sciences 2004-2007 Head of Department of Public Health, Semmelweis University Budapest Faculty of Health Sciences 2001-2004 Head of Department of Health Policy and Organisation, SemmelweisUniversity Budapest Faculty of Health Care 1999-2001 Director of Institute of Medical Public Health Budapest, Haynal Imre University of Health Sciences 1994-1998 Senior lecturer of Institute of Medical Public Health, Haynal Imre University of Health Sciences, Budapest 1970-1993 Surgeon of Surgical Department in Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Teaching Hospital, Budapest
Education:
1970 Graduated MD., Semmelweis University Budapest Faculty of Medicine 1974 Secialisation in General Surgery 1997 Specialisation in Social Medicine 1997 PhD: Historic origin of inconsistencies of business and ethics in the medical profession 2003 Specialisation in Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Experience and research:
1989- Research in history of medicine and applied sociology of medical service 1997-1999 Research of structure and financing in the US, UK, and German health systems, sponsored by Ministry of Health in Hungary 1998-1999 Research of gratuity payment on physicians' services, as a head of special committee mandated by the Ministry of Health in Hungary 1999 Organisation and implementation of training courses for future health managers of Kosovo after the NATO military action, mandated by International Organisation of Migration (IOM) 2000-2002 Research programme on gratuity payment problems and health policy responses after the 1989 fall of Socialism, sponsored by Ministry of Health in Hungary 2003-2005 3 years research programme on past and future international migration activity of medical doctors in Hungary, sponsored by Ministry of Health in Hungary 2005 Research on the 18th century health administration (in archives in Vienna) sponsored by the Hungarian Scholarship Board 2006-2007 Principle investigator in the study "evidence generated about equity in access to health care and developing policy options for reducing inequities" sponsored by the Regional Office for Europe of the WHO. 2007- Principle investigator in the 4-year study of Dept. of ?Increasing Capacity for Tobacco Research in Hungary? sponsored by the US National Institut of Health (award No.:1 R01 TW007927-01)
Languages:
Hungarian, English, German, only for scientific research: Italian, French, Latin
Recent publications:
1. Österle, A., Balázs, P., Delgado, J. – Travelling for Teeth: Charac-teristics and Perspectives of Dental Care Tourism in Hungary – British Dental Journal, 2009, 206: 425-428. 2. Eaton, K., Balázs, P. - Dentists' migration to and from Hungary between 1970 and 2005 and into the United Kingdom between 1994 and 2005 - Oral Health and Dental Management in the Black Sea Countries, 2008. Vol. VII. No. 4. 3-11. 3. Balázs, P., Foley, K., L. – Health Programs in the US Presidential Election Campaign 2008 – Egészségügyi Gazdasági Szemle 2008, 46, 5, 2-10. (Hungarian only) 4. Balázs, P., Oesterle, A. – Cross-national patient migration in the Hungarian dentistry - Fogorvosi Szemle 2008; 101, 5, 193-202. (English summary) 5. Balázs, P., Bánóczy, J., Márton, K., Kivovics, P. – Community dentistry in Hungary – Magyar Fogorvos 2008. XVII. (1) 26-30. (Hungarian only) 6. Feith HJ., Balázs P., Kovácsné TÁ. Female physicians’ and nurses’ self-rated general and psychosocial health status and health behaviour in Hungary. New Medicine no. 3/2007, volume XI. 55-58. 7. Balázs, P. – Empiric physiology in epidemiologic doctrines of the 18th century, Hungarian General Norm of Health in 1770 – Acta Physiol. Hung. vol. 93 (1) pp. 23-32 (2006) 8. Balázs, P. – Role of the Hapsburg Empire in the legislation of General Norm of Health 1770. – Orvostörténeti Közlemények 2005; 190-193 (1-4): 165-184 (Hungarian, abstract in English) 9. Balázs, P. – International comparison of health systems – Komplementer Medicina, 2005. 3. 20-25. (Hungarian, abstract in English) 10. Balázs, P. – Professionalism and religious dogmatism of the midwifry in the 18th century – Orvostörténeti Közlemények 2004, 186-187, No. 1-2, vol. II. 77-94 (Hungarian, abstract in English) 11. Balázs, P. – The beginnings of modern health governance in Hungary – Népegészségügy, 2005; 84 (4): 4-9. (Hungarian, abstract in English) 12. Balázs, P. – The impact of dentists’ immigration in the Hungarian dental care – Fogorvosi Szemle 2005; 98 (5): 179-183. (Hungarian, abstract in English) 13. Balázs, P. – Reform, private economy and solidarity in the health care – Egészségügyi Gazdasági Szemle 2004, 42, 6, 5-15. (Hungarian, abstract in English) 14. Balázs, P. – Problems in planning the number of physicians in Hungary – Informatika és Menedzsment az Egészségügyben (IME) 2004. III. 1. 9-13. (Hungarian, abstract in English) 15. Balázs, P. – Informal payment: dangerous self-deception in the Hungarian health system – Egészségügyi Gazdasági Szemle 2004, 42, 2, 5-13. (Hungarian, abstract in English) 16. Balázs, P. – Physicians’ income in Hungary, let us re-think the social health insurance – Egészségügyi Gazdasági Szemle 2003, 41, 6, 21-31. (Hungarian, abstract in English) 17. Balázs, P. – Informal payment in Hospital of Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God in Buda in Hungary – Egészségügyi Gazdasági Szemle 2002, 40, 583-594. (Hungarian, abstract in English) 18. Balázs, P. – Immigration of foreign physicians and dentists in Hungary in the 1980-90’s – Lege Artis Medicinae (LAM) 2002; 12 (1): 32-42. (Hungarian, abstract in English)