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WHO Health Promoting Schools:Catalyzing efforts to promote child and adolescent health?
OFFICIAL LAUNCH EVENT UNESCO CHAIRS
GLOBAL HEALTH & EDUCATION
10 October 2018, Paris, France
Dr Ben Faten Abdelaziz, CoordinatorDr Yuka Makino, Technical OfficerHealth Promotion Unit, WHO Headquarters
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1. Global Public Health Agenda
The SDGs and the WHO's 13th General Programme of Work (GPW13) (2019-2023)
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Context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The SDGs provide a unique opportunity for addressing health and its many determinants in an integrated and
transformative way
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The WHO's 13th General Programme of Work (GPW13) (2019-2023)
▪ The 13th GPW sets strategic direction for WHO’s work▪ Country focused▪ Focus on outcomes rather than output ▪ Highlights the importance of providing global public
goods by enabling ministries
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2. Key Facts of Child and Adolescent Health
More than 4600 children and adolescent die everyday
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Key Facts
Most of these deaths could have been treated or prevented e.g. Road injury, drowning, self-harm or diarrhoeal diseases
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Over 1.7 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 years died in 2016
Burden of NCDs, and their risk factors, continues to grow e.g. prevalence of obesity was less than 1% in 1975 to nearly 6% among all girls and 8% among all boys globally in 2016.
Reference: WHO. Global Health Estimates (GHE). 2016Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128.9 million children, adolescents, and adults. Lancet, 2017
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3. Health Promoting School initiative: A key investment for ensuring prosperous society
A health promoting school (HPS) is a school that constantly seeks to strengthen its capacity to promote healthy living, learning and working conditions
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Schools Provide an Efficient and Effective Way to Reach a Large Numbers of People
▹ School enrolment : over 90% in primary school age and
over 80% lower secondary school age in 2015 (UNICEF 2018)
▹ Schools are strategic platforms for delivering preventive
health care services
▹ School curriculum contribute to enhancing health literacy
of a community
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▹ Strengthen collaboration among all stakeholders
▹ Ensure sustainable funding
▹ Integrate health education as part of the curriculum
▹ Institutionalize human resource development
▹ Promote active engagement of parents, students and teachers
9Recommendations to move forward (WHO Expert meeting, 2015)
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Different perspective for schools from education and health sectors
Connect and reconcile …..10
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4. How UNESCO Chairs and WHO CC can promote health and wellbeing of children and adolescents
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UNESCO Chair for Global Health and Education is composed of more than 70 institutions globally
Generate evidence
Avail locally available information Provide Technical support
Plays a facilitating role between sectors and WHOCC-UNESCO-Chair
Dissemination of information
Coherence collaboration for education and health
University
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Geographical
diversity
Ensure context specific interventions
Tools and resources are relevant for countries
Support
coordination of
UN agencies
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Current and Future Collaboration activities with WHO and UNESCO ChairsDevelopment of the Global Standards for Health Promoting Schools: Make every school a health promotion school
▪ The global standards for HPS will build on the available evidence and good practices of school-based health promotion.