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This wiki presents an opportunity for Canadian organizations and individual researchers, practitioners and officials to share their findings and throughts about the state and capacity of Canadian school, health and other systems to promote health, safety and social development through schools.
This opportunity is supported by this wiki technology that enables contributors to add, amend, upload, link and comment on the summaries of various reports on how well we are doing in school health promotion in Canada.
This has been done through the preparation of an extensive "report" (actually, it is a synthesis of several reports and data sources) that is meant to be cumulative, collaborative and constructive. The initial draft of this report has been circulated among school health leaders, non-governmental organizations and researchers in Canada. However, we do not see this forum as ever producing a final report. Rather, we see this wiki as a source of data, shared insights and east reference to other, more formal reports.
We thank the Health & Learning Knowledge Centre of the Canadian Council on Learning for the support enabling us to create this forum.
Status Report on School Health in Canada in 2007
Prepared by Douglas McCall, Executive Director, Canadian Association for School Health
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of practice of school health promotion in Canada. It has been prepared for the Health & Learning Knowledge Centre of the Canadian Council on Learning as a means of assessing the current state of practice relating to one of the three priority content areas for that centre (promoting healthy settings for learning and human development)
Table of Contents (Each section is presented on sub-pages off of this page. See Navigation on left margin.)
Data Sources & Methodology for this Paper
The following data sources have been used to prepare this paper:
Methodology
These findings will then be circulated through several networks of national non-governmental organizations, researchers, provincial/territorial coordinators and a variety of other forums. The request to all concerned was to comment on accuracy of the summary and to add any additional information or correct any specific references.
The Board of Directors of the Canadian Association for School Health will be the group of people vetting the final product after it has been circulated among national networks representing 40+ researchers and 45+ non-governmental organizations.
A wiki-based process will be used to collect input from these sources as well as suggestions gathered from over 900 SH contacts in local agencies, participants in an email list of over 2000 and other sources. The final paper will reflect those comments and suggested changes. As well, the electronic record of comments and suggested changes retained by the wiki will be analyzed for a journal article on professional perceptions, awareness, current concerns and practical considerations of practitioners in Canadian school health promotion.
This opportunity is supported by this wiki technology that enables contributors to add, amend, upload, link and comment on the summaries of various reports on how well we are doing in school health promotion in Canada.
This has been done through the preparation of an extensive "report" (actually, it is a synthesis of several reports and data sources) that is meant to be cumulative, collaborative and constructive. The initial draft of this report has been circulated among school health leaders, non-governmental organizations and researchers in Canada. However, we do not see this forum as ever producing a final report. Rather, we see this wiki as a source of data, shared insights and east reference to other, more formal reports.
We thank the Health & Learning Knowledge Centre of the Canadian Council on Learning for the support enabling us to create this forum.
Status Report on School Health in Canada in 2007
Prepared by Douglas McCall, Executive Director, Canadian Association for School Health
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of practice of school health promotion in Canada. It has been prepared for the Health & Learning Knowledge Centre of the Canadian Council on Learning as a means of assessing the current state of practice relating to one of the three priority content areas for that centre (promoting healthy settings for learning and human development)
Table of Contents (Each section is presented on sub-pages off of this page. See Navigation on left margin.)
- Conceptual Basis of this Report
- Evolution of School Health Promotion Practice
- Data Sources & Methodology for this Report
- Importance of this Report
- Limitations of this Report
- Organization of this Report
- Findings on National & Provincial/Territorial Capacity
- Findings by Health Topic
- Findings by Elements of a CSH Approach
- Findings by Efforts to Address Local Community Contexts
- Findings on Efforts to Address System Characteristics & Change
- Findings on the State of SH Research in Canada
- Observations from this Consultation & wiki-dialogue
- Future Directions of SH in Canada
Data Sources & Methodology for this Paper
The following data sources have been used to prepare this paper:
- A survey of education and health ministry capacities undertaken in 2005-06 (McCall, 2006) and subsequently updated through key informant interviews and web searches
- provincial/territorial scans on schools and substance abuse (Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, 2007)
- national scan on physical activity/physical education and schools (Canadian Association Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2006)
- national scan on aboriginal communities & schools (Health & Learning Knowledge Centre, 2006)
- national scan on nutrition and schools (Health & Learning Knowledge Centre, 2006)
- national scan on aboriginal communities & schools (Health & Learning Knowledge Centre, 2006)
- national scan on tobacco & schools (Health & Learning Knowledge Centre, 2006)
- national scan on safety/bullying and schools (Canadian Association for School Health, 2007)
- preliminary scan of national activities on mental health & schools (Canadian Association for School Health, 2007)
- preliminary scan of national activities in sexual health promotion in schools (Canadian Association for School Health, 2007)
- review of provincial/territorial curricula in sexual health (Doherty, 2006)
- Status Report on School Health and Sexual Health/HIV-AIDS (Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, 1999)
- A national survey of school board and school programs in 2006 on air quality, safety, nutrition and physical activity undertaken by the Globe & Mail (2006)
- A report on provincial/territorial school nutrition policies (Canadian Centre for Science in the Public Interest, 2007)
- Baseline report on school capacities in physical education and physical activity promotion (Canadian Fitness & Lifestyle Institute (2006)
- Status Report on School Health and Sexual Health/HIV-AIDS (Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, 1999)
- Several selected articles on school health promotion or on comprehensive/coordinated approaches to selected health topics.
Methodology
The methodology for the preparation of this paper is as follows. The researcher who prepared this report is familiar with school health promotion practices in Canada reviewed the sources of information noted above and tentatively summarized the findings within this wiki.
These findings will then be circulated through several networks of national non-governmental organizations, researchers, provincial/territorial coordinators and a variety of other forums. The request to all concerned was to comment on accuracy of the summary and to add any additional information or correct any specific references.
The Board of Directors of the Canadian Association for School Health will be the group of people vetting the final product after it has been circulated among national networks representing 40+ researchers and 45+ non-governmental organizations.
A wiki-based process will be used to collect input from these sources as well as suggestions gathered from over 900 SH contacts in local agencies, participants in an email list of over 2000 and other sources. The final paper will reflect those comments and suggested changes. As well, the electronic record of comments and suggested changes retained by the wiki will be analyzed for a journal article on professional perceptions, awareness, current concerns and practical considerations of practitioners in Canadian school health promotion.
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