What is health?

Written by

This tool points out activities on discussing "What is health?", e.g. a quiz. It also outlines the key differences in definitions of health.

2017-08-18

This tool shows how different ways of defining health gives different possibilities for health a promotion policy and for healthy promotion activities for children. The tool is illustrated with children's examples.

2017-08-18

These Guidelines are made for policymakers (i.e. heads of department or senior officials within ministries) and are designed to inform the provision of quality physical education across the full age range from early years through secondary education. They provide a framework to support the development of several dimensions of human capital in a unique, comprehensive way. Some of the case studies in the guidelines are chosen by HEPCOM as examples. Read the guidelines for more examples.

2017-08-18

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.

2017-08-18

This manual helps schools to introduce and implement a school programme promoting healthy eating and physical activity, including a rapid assessment tool.It introduces the concept of school policy on healthy eating and physical activity and provides suggestions and guidelines for its development.

2017-08-18

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.

2017-08-18

Instructions for a practical exercise that stimulates reflection and discussion on the different concepts of health. Relates to Bjarne Bruun Jensens 4 components model "The concept of Health".

2017-08-18

This is an example of training material for professional practitioners in the field of early childhood education. Topics: Conceptions of health, social inequality in health, the community as a health promoting factor, social heritage and social inequality, mechanisms of social inclusion and exclusion.

2017-08-17

This mapping tool pursues the objective to assess local/ regional health authority’s health competencies, such as analytic skills, planning, programming & evaluation, and skills in relation to the creation of local and/or regional partnerships. The document furthermore includes a report that covers the experience gathered through the development and pilot testing of the tool.

2017-08-17

This tool can be used to kick start a regional development process and can structure the dialogue and help participants to think out of the box for a moment. The document describes the methodology of Scenario Planning.

The example of good practice shows how a project used Scenario Planning as a methodology. It shows the comments that were made during the scenario planning interviews.

2001-11-30

Search (complex)

Help

HEPCOM project: preventing overweight and obesity among children and young people. The HEPCOM project aims to increase the number and quality of local community and school interventions for promoting healthy eating and physical activity among children and young people throughout Europe.


For questions concerning the content and technical issues of the HEPCOM learning platform, please contact:


CBO (lead project partner)
Churchillaan 11, 3527 GV Utrecht, The Netherlands.
P.O. Box 20064, 3502 LB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Phone: +31 30 284 3982
E-mail: info@hepcom.eu

HEPCOM terms and conditions

In these terms and conditions, “we” or “our” shall mean all or any partner(s) in the HEPCOM project.

Tools and platform

Any commercial use of the material downloaded from hepcom.org is strictly forbidden.

The HEPCOM platform is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of the HEPCOM platform constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.

The HEPCOM platform is for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, products or services obtained from the HEPCOM platform. Exception to the above condition is constituted by:

  • policy makers and decision makers on local, regional and national level who are involved in strategic planning and overall decision making with respect to health promotion focused on children and young people;
  • professional practitioners within local communities and schools who are involved in health promoting activities and interventions towards children and young people.

You may display and, subject to any expressly stated restrictions or limitations relating to specific material, electronically copy, download and print hard copy portions of the material from the different areas of the platform solely for your own non-commercial use.

Warranties

The information provided by using the material downloadable from this platform, and the material itself, is provided without any representations or warranties, express or implied. We make no representations or warranties in relation to the medical, educational or other information on this platform or containing within the tools. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, we do not warrant or represent that the information on this platform or contained within the tool:

  1. will be constantly available, or available at all; or
  2. is complete, true, accurate, up to date or non-misleading;

Liability

Nothing in this disclaimer will:

  1. limit or exclude our liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  2. limit any of our liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
  3. exclude any of our liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.