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    The document discusses health promotion in schools and communities. It defines a health promoting school as one that strengthens its capacity as a healthy environment for living, learning, and working. Key aspects of a health promoting school include fostering health and learning, engaging stakeholders, and striving to provide a healthy environment and education. Setting up a school health promotion initiative involves establishing a team, assessing needs, setting goals and objectives, and developing an action plan. Health promotion with communities is a process where people work together to improve health through assessment, organization, program design, evaluation, and sustaining efforts. Civil society organizations can advocate for health rights, fill service gaps, improve access, obtain and share information, and mobilize communities for better

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    Health Promotion, Health Education

    and Behavioural Science


    Part -2
    LECTURE - 3

    Dr Syeda Farzana
    BDS ,MPH
    [email protected]
    HP at schools
    WHO definition: What is a health promoting school?

    A health promoting school is one that constantly strengthens its capacity as a healthy
    setting for living, learning and working.

    A health promoting school should:


    • Fosters health and learning
    • Engages teachers, students, parents, health providers and community
    leaders in efforts to make the school a healthy place.
    • Strives to provide a healthy environment, school health education, and
    school health services
    • Implements policies and practices that respect an individual's well being
    and opportunities for personal achievements.
    • Strives to improve the health of school personnel, families and community members
    and pupils
    HP at schools
    Steps in setting up a school HP initiative

    • Establishing a School Health Team


    • Assembling a Community Advisory Committee
    • Team-Building and Networking.
    • Reviewing current school health promotion efforts
    • Assessing health problems
    • Setting goals
    • Defining objectives
    • Developing the action plan
    • showing progress
    • Collecting information
    • Obtaining training and technical assistance
    • Linking local efforts to larger initiatives
    HP with the communities
    Health Promotion with the community can be described as the process
    in which health promoter and a community or a group of people work
    together to increase control over and to improve their own health and
    well being

    5 Phases of Community Health Promotion

    1. Community Assessment
    2. Community Organization
    3. Programme Design and Implementation
    4. Evaluation
    5. Sustaining the Effort
    HP with the communities
    1. Community Assessment

    • Define the Community (How large it is?, demographic


    characteristics, leadership and opinion leaders, institutions and
    sectors)
    • Collect or Review Data (morbidity, mortality, health status,
    demography, etc.)
    • Identify the risk factors
    • Begin a public awareness campaign
    • Formulate Initial Goal Statements.
    HP with the communities
    2. Community Organization

    • Assemble a Core Planning Group


    • Present and discuss data with the core group
    • Identify target populations and likely successful interventions
    • Develop a work plan
    • Identify, recruit, train and divide responsibilities between
    coalition members
    HP with the communities
    3. Programme Design and Implementation

    • Determine the type of Programme (awareness raising, lifestyle


    change, supportive environment)
    • Determine the level of intensity of the program
    • Identify resources needed to implement the proposed activity
    • Determine potential obstacles and propose possible solutions
    • Estimate total costs, develop a budget and consider funding options
    • Set a timeline
    HP with the communities
    4. Evaluation

    • Define the evaluation need


    • Determine the information needed
    • Develop the evaluation design
    • Determine the data collection method
    • Determine the sample
    • Collect, organize and analyze the data
    • Modify the programme
    HP with the communities
    5. Sustaining the effort

    • Review the current status (should it continue?, Does it need


    improvement?)
    • Examine how the community stakeholders are viewing the
    programme
    • Write new goal statement and objectives
    • Determine a new timeline and implementation plan
    • Inform media
    • Continue the recruit, maintain and train the stakeholders
    Role of civil society organizations in HP
    Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)

    • CSOs are broadly understood to be non-state, not-for-profit, voluntary


    organizations
    • individuals and groups organize themselves into civil society organizations
    (CSOs) to pursue their collective interests and engage in activities of public
    importance
    • CSOs emerged as reactions to centralized authority in state structures;
    dissatisfaction with state performance on public services ; and
    dissatisfaction with policy positions taken by the state on national and
    international issues.
    Role of civil society organizations in HP

    Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) can:

    • Advocate basic health rights


    • Fill gaps in health service delivery
    • Improve health service access
    Role of civil society organizations in HP

    Role of CSOs in HP

    •Obtaining and disseminating health information


    • Building informed public choice on health
    • Implementing and using health research
    • Helping to shift social attitudes; and
    • Mobilizing and organizing people for better health
    Thank You

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