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www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk Health Promoting Universities:
Developments and Networking in Europe Dr Mark Dooris University of
Central Lancashire Developing Leadership and Governance
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Presentation Contents www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk Addressing
Health in Higher Education: Why Health Promoting Universities?
Health Promoting Universities: Background & Conceptual
Underpinnings Developing & Networking Health Promoting
Universities in Europe: Overview
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Addressing Health in Higher Education: Why Health Promoting
Universities? Health Promoting Universities: Background and
Conceptual Underpinnings Developing & Networking Health
Promoting Universities in Europe: Overview
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Why Health Promoting Universities?
www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk Health is created and lived by people
within the settings of their everyday life; where they learn, work,
play and love. WHO (1986) Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
Universities represent an important and largescale setting: in the
UK alone, there are 164 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) with
2.5million students and 382,000 staff HESA, 2010/11 www.hesa.ac.uk
Healthy Universities builds on experience of Healthy Schools and
adds consistency across the education spectrum
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Why Health Promoting Universities?
www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk Investing in health and wellbeing is
a win-win situation: Healthy students and healthy staff will
increase levels of achievement, performance and productivity.
Universities have potential to make significant contribution to
long-term health of the population, through: improved student &
staff wellbeing wider organisational impacts longer-term
influence.
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Why Health Promoting Universities?
www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk Universities are large and complex
systems that do not have health as their main aim or raison dtre.
It can therefore be very challenging to introduce and integrate
health and wellbeing and in making the case, it is essential to
argue in terms of impact on core business (e.g. student/ staff
recruitment, retention, experience & performance). Little
research on Health Promoting Universities, but possible to draw on
learning/evidence from health promoting schools and other settings,
suggesting that effective programmes adopt a sustained whole system
approach addressing a range of factors and involving activity
across domains (Stewart-Brown, 2006)
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Addressing Health in Higher Education: Why Health Promoting
Universities? Health Promoting Universities: Background and
Conceptual Underpinnings Developing & Networking Health
Promoting Universities in Europe: Overview
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Health Promoting Universities: Approach
www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk Health Promoting Universities is one
application of the healthy settings approach, which is
well-established in other settings e.g. Schools; Cities; Hospitals
The approach reflects an appreciation that: many risk factors are
interrelated and can be best tackled through comprehensive,
integrated programmes in appropriate settings where people live,
work and interact Department of Health, Social Services and Public
Safety, 2002
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Health Promoting Universities: Approach
www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk The approach also reflects:
Ecological Model: health and well-being determined through
interplay of environmental, organisational and behavioural factors;
human and ecosystem health (people and planet ) essentially
interlinked. Systems Perspective: interconnected inputs, processes,
outputs and impacts within, outside and beyond the university.
Whole System Thinking: beyond interventions in the setting emphasis
on introducing and managing change across whole institution:
multi-factorial, multi-stakeholder, multi-domain.
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Health Promoting Universities In the Context of Other Settings
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Health Promoting Universities: Context
www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk In applying the settings approach to
higher education, we must recognise that a university is a complex
system a centre of learning and development a focus for
cross-disciplinary creativity and innovation a business, concerned
with performance and productivity a partner and player in
local/national/global communities a setting in which students
undergo transition facing challenges; and exploring, experimenting
and developing independence and lifeskills a context that future
shapes students to have influence and impact through roles in
families, communities, workplaces, policy-making etc.
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Health Promoting Universities: Vision
www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk A Health Promoting University aspires
to create a learning environment and organisational culture that
enhances the health, wellbeing and sustainability of its community
and enables people to achieve their full potential.
www.eurohpu.aau.dk [www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk]
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Health Promoting Universities: How?
www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk Underpinning Values
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www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk students lecturers caterers &
venue operators wider community families support services
connecting between people Health Promoting Universities: How?
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www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk formal curriculum inter-personal
relationships student finance transport infrastructure students
union campus design connecting between components of the system
Health Promoting Universities: How?
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www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk sexual health alcohol &
substance use/misuse physical activity advertising &
sponsorship mental wellbeing food and diet connecting between
issues Health Promoting Universities: How?
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Addressing Health in Higher Education: Why Health Promoting
Universities? Health Promoting Universities: Background and
Conceptual Underpinnings Developing & Networking Health
Promoting Universities in Europe: Overview
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1994/5 Initiatives established at two English universities
(UCLan and Lancaster) following 1993 International Settings
Symposium 1998 WHO book Health Promoting Universities Tsouros et
al, 1998 No subsequent international programme or WHO leadership
Intra-country activity and network development in range of
countries and regions (e.g. Germany, England, Spain, Latin America,
Asia Pacific) International conferences Health Promoting
Universities: History 2007 IUHPE GWG on Healthy Settings 2010
Virtual European Network established, UniHealth 2020 vision
statement agreed & meetings held at conferences (no funding,
but contact points in 15 countries)
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German Health Promoting University Network
www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk Developing Leadership and
Governance
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English Healthy Universities Network
www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk English Healthy Universities Network
has grown from just 8 universities in 2006 and has expanded by
around 50% since this project started in 2009. It now has
representation from: 69 universities 27 other stakeholder
organisations Welsh Assembly Scottish, Welsh and Irish HEIs.
Developing Leadership and Governance
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English Healthy Universities Network
www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk
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English Healthy Universities Network
www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk/toolkit
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1994/5 Initiatives established at two English universities
(UCLan and Lancaster) following 1993 International Settings
Symposium 1998 WHO book Health Promoting Universities Tsouros et
al, 1998 No subsequent international programme or WHO leadership
Intra-country activity and network development in range of
countries and regions (e.g. Germany, England, Spain, Latin America,
Asia Pacific) International conferences Health Promoting
Universities: History 2007 IUHPE GWG on Healthy Settings 2010
Virtual European Network established, UniHealth 2020 vision
statement agreed & meetings held at conferences (no funding,
but contact points in 15 countries)
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Strengthen role of European universities in addressing key 21
st century public health issues Enhance and build on good
occupational safety and health management as cross-cutting issues
Forge strong and visible connections between public health and
sustainable development agendas Develop evidence base for
effectiveness of university- focused health promotion interventions
and of the whole system Health Promoting Universities approach
European Health Promoting Universities: Network Objectives
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Identified Priorities and Aspirations European conference(s)
How to (20 steps) guide Quality standards and handbook Link to CSR
(ISO26000) and sustainable development Guidance for integrating
health into other disciplines Key Challenges Retaining and building
interest, enthusiasm and momentum Securing funding for
co-ordination and development Ways Forward Liaise and meet with
WHO, IUHPE and other organisations Locate work within context of
wider settings development Health Promoting Universities: Moving
Forward
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www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk Health Promoting Universities:
Developments and Networking in Europe Dr Mark Dooris University of
Central Lancashire [email protected] Developing Leadership and
Governance
