Promote health and well being in the sporting schools

1
Promote health and well being in the sporting
schools

• New proposals
• French Polynesia

2
Justification

• A project totally initiated and carried by the
  sector of sports
• A project that is clearly linked to the obesity
  programme
• Targeting school age children, especially
  vulnerable groups
• 3 Strategies are concerned
• Inform and educate
• Healthy eating,
• Be active
• Well being, self esteem
• Train professionnels from other sectors
• Promote and create healthy environments
• Encourage daily physical activity in families
• Support NgOs projects in favor of of physical
  activity promotion
• A project at middle course for evaluation

3
The new objectives/strategies

• Integrate and disseminate the concepts and the
  principles of global health promotion around the
  child
• Gather the means and the skills for more
  efficency
• Reinforce and make the intersectoral partnership
  more operational

4
How to do ?

• Use the technical committee of the EPAP as
  springboard of discussion for these new proposals
• To sit a stable and durable partnership between 3
  ministries sports, health and education
• To support a request of financing the activities
• To ensure a coherence of the field activities

5
Perspectives for the project

• Help the pilot team in the department of sports
  to set up an evaluation of the process, the
  results and the impact
• Use the results of this evaluation to improve the
  strategies of the project
• Propose new orientations to enrich the process of
  health promotion
• Integrate other dimensions of health
• sanitation, addictive behaviours, nutrition,
  self-confidence, sexuality
• Design new tools for health education
• Increase the skills of the professionals of the
  sporting schools
• Notions and methods of health education and
  health promotion

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Perspectives for the project

• Think to a family approach
• Assess the family needs
• Raise the awerenes of the parents
• Educate or train the parents to make them more
  responsible
• Improve the infrastructures for more
  accessibility
• Implement a secondary prevention using a
  multidisciplinary work
• Detection of the children in overweight
• Specific programme and tools to help reduce BMI