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Evidence-based Guidance of "Taiwan Health Promoting School"Promotional Strategy & Result of Second-Generation Health Promotion
(2012-10-31) Liu, Chieh-Hsing; Chang Tzu-Chau; Liao Li-Ling; Chang Fong-ching; Cheng Chi-chia; Niu Yu- Zhen; Chou, Hsin-Pei
Through policy support, cross-agency partnership, and bottom-up comprehensive counseling the Ministry of Education began promoting evidence-based guidance for the second-generation Health Promoting School. The purpose is to help local governments and schools in improving the student health conditions and in creating a healthy lifestyle, and to participate in the process comprehensively. The important results are four thousand two hundred eighteen high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools participated in the Health Promoting School initiative. One hundred and one school principals, directors, and teachers participated as counselors in the schools within cities and counties. In addition to the self-efficacy for the schools promoting the project, the schools had expressed their satisfaction and willingness to continue with the initiative. One hundred action-research programs were created and visitors to the online learning platform have exceeded the millions, as an indicator of resource integration. International conferences on the results of Health Promoting School has given recognition for the local governments' and schools' concrete effort on promoting healthy behavior in school, and align them with international standards. The success of health-promoting schools in Taiwan lies in the integration of health and educational resources, as well as the establishment of partnerships. Central and local government units, community organizations, parent groups, counselors, and schools alike support one another as they all value health and acknowledge the ideals of “health-promoting schools”. Let us continue our efforts for the health of our future generations.
A study about effectiveness of the health promoting schools supporting network on schools' self-efficacy in Taiwan
(2012-10-31) Liao Li-Ling; Liu Chieh-Hsing; Chang Fong-ching; Cheng Chi-chia J.; Niu Yu- Zhen
Taiwan launched the “Health-Promoting School Program” in 2001, and has established and provided a supporting network system to schools at various levels. This supporting network includes professional support for guidance teams and administrative support from governmental units. This study aims to discuss the effectiveness of such supporting network system to the self-efficacy of schools while carrying out the Health-Promoting School Program. As a cross-sectional study, the target population is staff involved in the Health-Promoting School Program from all junior high schools and elementary schools in Taiwan. Stratified systematic sampling design was employed based on junior high schools or elementary schools, counties or cities, and school size etc., and probability proportional to size (PPS) was used at each stratum. A total of 800 schools were sampled and a total of 621 valid questionnaires were received, giving a receiving rate of 77.63%. As revealed from results of stepwise regression analysis, age of research subjects, subjects' relationship with guidance teams, and satisfaction of policies and resources had significant predictability to subjects' efficacy while carrying out the Health-Promoting School Program (total variance 23.2%, p<0.001). The satisfaction of policies and resources was found with the best predictability with variance of 16.9%. This study showed that the health-promoting school supporting network gives a positive impact to efficacy of executing the Health-Promoting School Program. Effort should be placed to strengthen the relationship between guidance teams and schools, and improve each school's satisfaction about relative policies and resources.