The European Commission Green Paper on Ageing and the Health Promoting Schools (HPS) paradigm can be connected through several key objectives, as both aim to promote health and wellbeing across the lifespan, with a particular focus on fostering positive habits from a young age that can support active healthy ageing. This book is an output of the ERASMUS+ School for Health in Europe for Active and Healthy Ageing...
The REACT project aims to address directly the first horizontal priority, “Addressing digital transformation through the development of readiness, resilience and capacity”, with the development of the Rural eHealth facilitators concept. For this, the project provides the tools to help vulnerable and older citizens in rural areas develop digital capacities to become included in eHealth offerings. Indeed, the und...
Background: Life Skills have been central to Health Promotion interventions and programmes with children and adolescents for over 40 years. School is a strategic setting for Life Skills education. Recently, policy-and decision-makers have focused on Life Skills development for youth. Research on Life Skills has gained momentum. Different terms are used to discuss and define Life Skills. Research identifies a la...
Background: Digital communication technologies are playing an important role in the health communication strategies of governments and public health authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The internet and social media have become important sources of health-related information on COVID-19 and on protective behaviors. In addition, the COVID-19 infodemic is spreading faster than the coronavirus itself, which i...
The Co-creation Welfare training course has been developed within the European ERASMUS+ Project called “Co-creating Welfare”. The motivation for the development of the training course is a broadly political acknowledged need for reorganisation within the welfare sector in order to obtain a more sustainable and cost-effectiveness sector. Organisations that offer welfare services to citizens are often struggling ...
The Schools for Health in Europe Network Foundation mapping (SHE mapping) survey is a cross-national study to map the level of implementation of health promotion in schools of the SHE member countries and how this implementation is carried out. SHE mapping collected international data on: the integration of the national Health Promoting School (HPS) policy into other national policies; how national policies fra...
The need to update the SHE online manual emerged from the current social challenges that countries face, as emphasized in the 5th European Conference on Health Promoting Schools. Cultural and religious diversity, political and economic crisis, climate change, issues related to gender and non-communicable diseases among others are key and current issues that result in changes in the environmental and societal de...