The main aim of the WAICHL-2023 conference is a presentation of results of scientific research and exchange of views on economic, social, and health challenges in the new geopolitical reality. The objective of the conference is also activation and integration of the academic community, local and regional authorities, public institutions, and representatives of economic practice and business world for promoting the healthy and socially responsible lifestyle.

Issues related to economic, social and health challenges to societies in Europe after February 24, 2022, will be presented at the WAICHL-2023 conference. Moreover, issues regarding social and economic effects of the influx of the refugees from Ukraine into Europe and challenges to public health, food economy, and sustainable lifestyles in the new geopolitical reality will be discussed. The conference focuses also on attitudes of societies, Churches, national and international institutions towards Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

Moreover, issues related to methods and quality of statistical surveys in the area of measuring quality of life and the importance of population censuses for the analysis of demographic, social, and economic changes in the modern world will be debated. Additionally, selected results of the National Population and Housing Census 2021 in Poland will be shown.

Not only representatives of academic and medical communities, local and regional authorities but also representatives of public institutions, economic practice and business world who deal with issues in health and lifestyles in the modern world are being cordially invited to attend the conference.

Wroclaw Annual International Conference on Health and Lifestyle (WAICHL-2023) is the seventh WAICHL conference and the ninth conference on health and the quality of life organized by the Institute of Economic Sciences of the University of Wroclaw and its partners. The conference I Do Not See the Problem – the Quality of Life of People with Vision Dysfunction was held in 2015. A year later, the international conference The Quality of Life for Disabled People at the Beginning of the 21st Century took place at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wroclaw. The WAICHL conferences have been organized since 2017.

The languages of the conference are Polish and English.

There will be a poster session during the conference.