Priority directions of health promoting schools activity for improving the health in Eastern European countries
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https://doi.org/10.38014/ehs-ss.2015.4.04Keywords:
health, health promoting activity, priority directions, prevention, wellness-sports direction, preventive educational direction, health promotion school, the European network of health promoting schoolsAbstract
The priority directions of health promoting schools activity for improving the health in Eastern European countries are under review: Poland and Russia – wellness-sports, for the Czech Republic and Hungary – preventive, for Ukraine – preventive-educational. The preventive line provides the foundation of the preventive measures system and impact of risk factors on the development of diseases; improving-sports complex activities as sports oriented and the wellness on elimination of expressed risk factors, and the complex of actions for the patients’ rehabilitation; preventive-educational direction is considered from the point of view of the benefits of the educational component (motivation on health maintenance, preventive care). The special attention is paid to the analysis of theoretical and legal bases of national networks of health promoting schools European countries activities. The main aspects are determined and legislated including: goals and objectives of the establishment and activity of the European network of health promoting schools; the main directions of its activity; forms and methods; management structure of activity and interaction and cooperation within the European network of health promoting schools. Determined that the idea of the project of the European network of health promoting schools is a further development of the WHO strategy , developed in the Ottawa Charter, the programme «Health for all», «Health – 2020» and «Europe – 2020».
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