Excerpt from Health-promoting schools: a resource for developing indicators, (2006) Schools for Health Europe, Amsterdam
Oleg Yeresko & Viktor Lyakh Development of a national health-promoting schools programme at the school level in Ukraine pp 163-168
In recent years, the Government of Ukraine has recognized health promotion as a strategic priority. Several national policies and documents have been issued to facilitate the cooperation of the health and public sectors and to introduce health education to Ukraine’s population in general and to young people in particular. The key concern of health care reform is therefore to strengthen the potential of education and other public sectors to start and contribute to active communitybased
health promotion, especially among young people. Hence, developing indicators for health-promoting schools at the national level can contribute to improving the system of primary disease prevention in Ukraine. In 2004, Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science of developed and approved a national health education course Basics of Health for students in grades 1–9, which is to be obligatory in all general schools. Later in 2004, a system for preparing and training teachers to deliver the course was introduced. Using the cascade model of training, the Ministry of Education and Science would like to provide schools with trained personnel. According to the Ministry, about 15% of schools have personnel prepared for delivering this particular course. In accordance with introduction of the national course, the Ukrainian Centre for Monitoring and Evaluation of Health Education was created in February 2006. A national system of monitoring and evaluation based on agreed indicators is being
developed. This is being guided by ENHPS principles and previous work on indicators. Main findings. Three main indicators related to a health-promoting school curriculum at the school level were elaborated (and informally tested in a selected number of schools):
• a national curriculum for health education, which is in accordance with healthpromoting schools policies and requirements for students in grades 1–9 (including content, educational materials and illustrative materials) is in place in 27
regions by the end of 2009;
• the number of teachers trained on the accredited course who have delivered the curriculum in schools in the past nine months by the end of May 2007; and
• the number of students receiving the national curriculum by the end of May 2007 delivered by those receiving accredited training.
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