Building Healthy Communities: Creating Policy to Sustain Health-Related School Change

Centeio, Erin E.; Barcelona, Jeanne; Kaszeta, Kristen; McCaughtry, Nate

doi:10.5195/jyd.2018.602

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Socio-Ecological Factors in Building a Healthy Community: A Comparative Study of Healthy Community Assessment Standards

Zhao,

Chen,

Zhang

2024

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Healthy community assessment standards significantly influence community design and planning and are an important measure of a community’s ability to support health and well-being. Previous studies have mostly focused on built-environment indicators. However, building a healthy community is a complex issue involving multiple dimensions and factors. The consideration of the full range of health promotion factors is the key to determining their potential impact on individuals’ health. It is necessary to consider multiple perspectives to deepen the understanding of community health influences and enhance the effectiveness of the implementation of the assessment standards. The socio-ecological model (SEM) provides a critical framework for understanding the multiple influences on individual health. In this study, a two-dimensional interdisciplinary analytical framework of “socio-ecological factors–development goals” is developed by integrating development goals that summarize building considerations in assessment standards. Contextual analysis is used to examine the provisions of the following assessment standards: Assessment Standard for Healthy Community (ASHC), Assessment Standard for Healthy Retrofitting of Existing Residential Area (ASHRERA), WELL Community Standard (WELL), and Fitwel Certification System of Community (Fitwel). The results show that community and organization factors are used more than interpersonal and policy factors among the four standards. Humanistic constructions lack attention in the ASHC and ASHRERA standards compared with the other standards. The differences between the four standards indicate that there is a need to focus on regional features and develop locally adapted interventions. This study offers a novel exploration of the potential effectiveness of healthy community assessment standards from a multidisciplinary perspective. The results of this study support standard-setters and planners in the development of interventions to improve building healthy communities using intersectionality frameworks.

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Socio-Ecological Factors in Building a Healthy Community: A Comparative Study of Healthy Community Assessment Standards

Zhao,

Chen,

Zhang

2024

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Contributions of the School Settings to the Promotion of Health-enhancing Physical Activity – dissemination of the HEPAS project results in the context of the Czech curriculum changes

Vlček,

Slaná,

Vašíčková

et al. 2021

Life in Health 2021: Research and Practice

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This text presents one of the steps in the dissemination process of the ‘HEPAS’ project in the Czech Republic. HEPAS (Healthy and Physically Active Schools in Europe) was funded under the Erasmus+ Programme, Key Action 2: Strategic Partnerships led by the University of Luxembourg. HEPAS Associated Partners (according to the service agreement) was to perform the activities specified in the agreement to successfully promote and implement the project results in their respective country. In the Czech Republic, the Czech Society of PE Teachers (CSPET) was the HEPAS associated partner. The objective of this paper is to point out an unpublished report elaborated by the HEPAS project team and use the data to consider the specifics of the Czech curriculum currently being revised. The report brought evidence from the last ten years of the contributions of schoolbased physical activity, physical education, and school sport on the promotion of healthenhancing physical activity. The study used a 'rapid reviewing' method, in which sources were identified and analysed using systematic reviewing techniques, but subsequent stages were adapted to facilitate flexible and practical interpretation. The authors used the results to discuss the plausibility of introducing an 'Active Schools' concept in the Czech curricula, in which physical education lessons designed to equip students with the prerequisite knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values supportive of a physically active lifestyle are augmented by other school-based contexts which provide the opportunity to meet the recommended guidelines for physical activity participation.

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Building Healthy Communities: Creating Policy to Sustain Health-Related School Change

Cited by 2 publications

References 35 publications

Socio-Ecological Factors in Building a Healthy Community: A Comparative Study of Healthy Community Assessment Standards

Socio-Ecological Factors in Building a Healthy Community: A Comparative Study of Healthy Community Assessment Standards

Contributions of the School Settings to the Promotion of Health-enhancing Physical Activity – dissemination of the HEPAS project results in the context of the Czech curriculum changes

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