Friday, 18 August 2017 11:47

SHE rapid assesment tool

To assess your school’s current policies and practices related to health promotion to determine your school community’s needs and priorities you can use the SHE rapid assessment tool. The tool consists of a series of questions related to the whole-school approach. Answering the questions can help you identify what your school already does well, what areas need improvement and what you want to focus on in your health promoting school.

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Friday, 18 August 2017 11:44

SHE Online School Manual

The SHE online school manual is intended for school management, teachers and other school staff who are involved in the development of health promoting schools in the primary and secondary school setting. The manual is a step-by-step guide on how to become a health promoting school, presented in five, consecutive phases. For each phase, key concepts and actions are described to help you complete the necessary actions in that phase.

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Friday, 18 August 2017 11:23

Self Assessment Guide - Municipal Level

The questions in this self-evaluation tool are to be answered by staff at municipality level. It encompasses the following topics: (1) Policy, strategy and management; (2) Action planning; (3) Implementation; (4) Evaluation and communication. It contains questions related to the internal affairs of the local authority as well as questions related to external stakeholders.

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The questions in this self-evaluation tool are to be answered by staff at pre-schools. Some of the questions need to be revised if the tool is used in other settings. The tool encompasses the following topics: (1) Policy, strategy and management; (2) Action planning; (3) Implementation; (4) Evaluation and communication.

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Friday, 18 August 2017 11:11

Table of Content for a Policy Analysis

This tool helps to structure a policy analysis, focusing on municipal activities within overweight and obesity within children, young people and their families.

The good practice example shows the use of the tool in a study of health policy and practice in Tønder municipality (Denmark).

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Friday, 18 August 2017 10:44

Gradient Evaluation Framework

An action-oriented policy tool that provides a framework for the evaluation of policy actions at each of the key stages of the policy cycle. It includes a set of principles, procedures and mechanisms that can be applied to 1) Public health policies that comprise of a complex mix of actions, 2) Specific health policy actions (e.g. nutrition programmes in schools),  3) Non-health policies that have a potential to impact on the social determinants of health inequalities (e.g. education, employment, and agriculture sectors). It presents a conceptual model to set the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and their related actions.

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Friday, 30 November 2001 00:00

Investigation Tool

Template to carry through the desk research and the interviews with Key Persons in local authorities. To be used as a first guideline when you start working with the municipality

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