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  • About
    • Introduction to this workbook and new SHP Paradigm
    • How to Use, Contribute to this Workbook >
      • Format of Better Practices Pages
    • SH Promotion in the 21st Century
    • List of Better Practices in this Workbook
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    • Brief History, Key Aspects of SHP
    • Key Definitions & Terms
  • Better Practices (A-F)
    • Before You Start: Shared Vision & Goals
    • A. Understand Your Context >
      • A-1 Defined Country, Community Contexts
      • A-2 Conduct a Situation Analysis >
        • A-2-1 Understand the Organization, Structures, Laws for Education Systems
      • A-3 Exchanges with similar countries
    • B. Better Data, Focus Your Resources >
      • B-1 Agree on Priority Issues >
        • B-1 (i) Issues documented, Agreed, Communicated
        • B-1 (ii) Local, School Priorities Enabled
      • B-2 Focus Your Resources on these Issues
      • B-3 Select/Develop/Use Surveys on Child Health & Behaviours
      • B-4 Select/develop/use a SH Policy/Program Survey
      • B-5 Select/develop/use a HPSD student learning survey
      • B-6 Establish Reporting Format, Frequency
    • C Whole Child, All Children, Esp. Disadvantaged >
      • C-1 Define, Describe, Publish Your Values
      • C-2 Describe Impact on Access, Achievement in school
      • C-3 Describe Impact on Disadvantaged Students
    • D Choose Interventions, Build Multi-Interventions (MIP's) >
      • D-1 Select Populations to be served by priority interventions
      • D-2 Select core sets of interventions
      • D-3 Build Multi-Intervention Progrtams (MIP's)
      • D-4 Control Proliferation of Projects, Issues
    • E. Select & Align Multi-Component Approaches >
      • E-1 Select, descrtibe your Multi-Component Approach (MCA)
      • E-2 Align MCA's Used in your country
    • F Build, Maintain Core Components >
      • F-1 Over-arching SH Policy >
        • F-1 (i) The Policy-Making Cycle
        • F-1 (ii) Encourage/require multiple components/interventions
        • F-1 (iii) Emphasize Equity within the policy
        • F-1 (iv) Support the Policy with an Action Plan
      • F-2 Develop, maintain a strategic action plan >
        • F-2 (i) Health, Education, Other Ministry Service Plans
        • F-2 (ii) Local Health, Education, Other Agency Service Plans
        • F-2 (iii) School, Clinic, Professional Service Plans, Guidelines
      • F-3 Maintain a core HPSD Education Program >
        • F-3 (i) Core HPSD Curriculum/Class Instruction
        • F-3 (ii) Consider core Home Ec/Financial Literacy Curriculum
        • F-3 (iii) Consider Core PE Curriculum
        • F-3 (iv) Vocational Prep for Health Careers
        • F-3 (v) Planned, sequenced cross-curricular instruction
        • F-3 (vi) Use of school routines, organization
        • F-3 (vii) Correlate with School Climate, Discipline Practices
        • F-3 (viii) Use of Co-Curricular Activities
        • F-3 (ix) Use of Extra-curricular Activities
        • F-3 (x) School-linked Web Learning
        • F-3 (xi) School-linked Family/Parent Education
        • F-3 (xii) School Participation in Community Education Programs
        • F-3 (xiii) Teacher Education & Development
        • F-3 (xiv) Teacher Wellness
      • F-4 Define Set of SH Services, Waiting Times >
        • F-4 (i) Defined set of school-based/linked services
        • F-4 (ii) School Health Services Quality, Delivery
        • F-4 (iii) School-based Clinics
        • F-4 (iv) School-based Vaccinations/Immuization
        • F-4 (v) School Management of Students with Chronic Diseases
        • F-4 (vi) School Management of Students with Disabilities
        • F-4 Role, Training of School Nurses
        • F-4 (viii) Role, Training of School Psychologists
        • F-4 (ix) Role, Training of School Physicians
        • F-4 (x) Role, Training of Donor Funded Aid Workers
        • F-4 Role, Training of SH Coordinators
      • F-5 Social Environmnet, Support, Engagement >
        • F-5 (i) Maintain positive school social climate
        • F-5 (ii) School discipline/codes of conduct
        • F-5 (iii) Consult, engage students
        • F-5 (iv) Inform, educate, involve, support parents
        • F-5 (v) Inform, involve community
        • F-5 (vi) Awareness, safety, use of social media
      • F-6 Physical Environment, Practical Resources >
        • F-6 (i) School Construction, Retro-fitting
        • F-6 (ii) Clean Water
        • F-6 (iii) Clean, safe bathrooms, latrines
        • F-6 (iv) School Meals, Food Services
        • F-6 (v) Safe Routtes to School
        • F-6 (vi) Disaster/Emergency Risk Reduction
        • F-6 (vi) Strategy to "Green" School Grounds, Facilities
      • F-7 Reciprocal, Strategic Partnerships
      • F-8 Country/Community Ownership
      • F-9 Youth/Student Engagement
  • Better Practices (G-J)
    • G Implementing, Scaling Up, Sustaining Programs >
      • G-1 Are you distributing, disseminating or institutionalizing?
      • G-2 Scaling Up, Succession Planning
      • G-3 Intervention Mapping
      • G-4 Interventiion Fit with your Situation
      • G-5 Use of Effective Planning Mechanisms
      • G-6 Use a Tested Implementation Model
      • G-7 Anticipate local Barriers, Drivers
      • G-8 Identify Threshold/Levers for Sustaining Programs >
        • Calculate & plan for scale up/ongoing costs
    • H Build System/Organizational Capacity >
      • H-1 Start=up & Baseline Funding, Staffing >
        • H-1 (i) Transition from Project to Ongoing Program/Budget
        • H-1 (ii) Adequate Time in Curriculum/School Day
        • H-1 (iii) Minimum Waiting Times for Services
      • H-2 System & Organizational Capacities >
        • H-2 (i) Coordinated Policy & Leadership
        • H-2 (ii) Assigned Staff as Coordinators at all Levels
        • H-2 (iii) Mechanisms for Cooperation, Coordination
        • H-2 (iv) Ongoing Knowledge Exchange & Development
        • H-2 (v) Pre-service education, In-service development of workforce
        • H-2 (vi) Regular monitoring, reporting, evaluation, improvement
        • H-2 (vii) Identify, jointly manage emerging issues
        • H-2 (viii) Explicit plan for sustainability
    • I Integrate Health & Social Programs in Core Business of Education System >
      • I-1 New Partnership Models to Better Integrate Within Education >
        • I-1-(i) Negotiated roles, resources in SH partnership
        • I-1 (ii) All initiiatives through one SH structure/team
        • I-1 (iii) First Consider Learning Needs
      • I-2 Align SH work within education structures, concerns, routines >
        • I-2 (i) Understand constraints on schools
        • I-2 (ii) Understand teacher beliefs, norms, work lives, concerns
        • I-2 (iii) Recognize, support teacher autonomy in lessons
        • I-2 (iv) Use updated pedagogical models
        • I-2 (v) Build teams in constrained conditions
        • I-2 (vi) Fit within stages, models of teacher education./development
        • I-2 (vii) Invest in education/development of non-educators in SH
      • I-3 Avoid silos on diseases/problems >
        • I-3 (i) Be guided by integrative paradigms
        • I-3 (ii) Deliver interventions within your multi-component approach (MCA)
        • I-3 (iii) Advocate for HPSD education in a broad core curriculum
      • I-4 Re-align Health, Other Sectors Within Education >
        • I-4 (i) Use "no-blame", shared responsibility, incremental change strategies
        • I-4 (ii) Address the characteristics of education systems
        • I-4 (iii) Use systems change models used by educators
        • I-4 (iv) Work within education consultative, decision-making & management structures
        • I-4 (v) Describe how core health/other sector structures, functions will relate to education counterparts
        • I-4 (vi) Maintain long-term perspective when building partnership with education sector
        • I-4 (vii) Develop, maintain a joint monitoring & reporting system
      • I-5 Health/Other Sectors should commit to providing on-going financial & human resources within schools >
        • I-5 (i) Health/other sectors should build capacity within their system that work with schools
        • I-5 (ii) Be specific about outputs from your partnership with the education sector
        • I-5 (iii) Health/other sectors should define minimum service levels related to schools
    • J Use concepts/tools from systems science/organizational development >
      • J-1 Policies, practice guidelines require Ecological Approach, Systems-focused Actions >
        • J-1 (i) Discourage use of settings as way to reach captive audience, encourage strategies to build capacity, modify conditions
        • J-1 (ii) Position linear logic models for programs within complex, ecological models
        • J-1 (iii) Select or adapt a model of continuous improvement/quality management
        • J-1 (iv) Review, select concepts/tools from systems science
      • J-2 Address implications of systems characteristics >
        • J-2 (i) Address implications of Open Systems
        • J-2 (ii) Addresss imlications of decision-making in loosely-coupled systems
        • J-2 (iii) Address implications of "professional bureaucracies"
      • J-3 Address complexities of working across & within several systems, agencies >
        • J-3 (i) Address inter-organizational cooperation & competition
        • J-3 (ii) Plan for different types of cooperation
        • J-3 (iii) Implement, maintain a "whole of government" strategy
        • J-3 (iv) Understand contradictions of "Health in All Policies" initiatives
    • Addendum: Developing a SHP Knowledge Development/Research Agenda
  • Approaches & Contexts
    • Different Approaches
    • Different Contexts >
      • Low Resource Countries
      • Conflict/Disaster Affected Countries
      • High Resource Countries
      • Indigenous Communities
      • Disadvantaged Communities
      • Small Island Developing States
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