[Health conferences--opportunities for cooperation between demands and reality]

The chances, to carry out health-political innovations on the communal level, are actually in a close manner connected with the development of on health related cooperation structures. Whether health politicians, experts or scientists, they all set their hope on the instrument of cooperation and coordination, to be able to solve better the urgent questions of health promotion and health care in the communities or regions. Conferences of health are they key-term for the necessary organizational frame, which should render possible an improved cooperation and harmonization between the actors of the health system. On the background of selected examples of practice of health conferences here will be discussed the conception and the problems of transformation as well as the necessary conditions of development.