efficient human resources - esi funds for health...
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The Project was co-financed by the European Union from the European Social Fund.
OPERATIONAL PROGRAM
Efficient
human
resources2014. - 2020.
EMPLOYMENT
SOCIAL INCLUSION
EDUCATION
BETTER ADMINISTRATION
6/9/2018
Project „ Healthy Living”practical implementation, challenges and good practices
Element 1 – Health EducationSubelement Sexual health
prim. Tatjana Nemeth Blažić, MD
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Health and Physical Activity
Health and Nutrition
Health and the
Workplace
Health and the
Environment
Health Education –
Sexual health
Health Education – Sexual HealthGoals:1. Scaling up knowledge and skills of youth and adults to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health
2. Improve access to sexual and reproductive health services for counselling and testing
3. Raising awareness about sexual health
Objectives:1. Strengthen formal and informal sexual health education
2. Strengthen the role and improve access and quality of sexual and reproductive health counselling and testing services
3. Strengthen public awareness sexual and reproductive campaigns
Target population:adolescents, adults-general population, key populations (MSM, PWID...)
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Relevance and link to the policy goals in the area of sexual health and health promotion
• Action plan for sexual and reproductive health: towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development in Europe – leaving no one behind, WHO, 2016.
• National Program of HIV Prevention
• National Strategy of Combating Drug Abuse 2012-2017
• National Strategy of Health Development 2012-2020
• Strategic Plan of Public Health Development
• National Strategy for Youth 2013-2017
• National program Living Healthy
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Activities
1.1. Strengthening the capacity and knowledge of public health experts to provide peer education for youth to support sexual health education
- establishing working group for peer education
- production of manual and educational materials
- organisation of educational workshop - training of educators
- implementation of peer education in high schools on national level (20% schools, all counties)
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Activities2.1. Evaluating available services for sexual and reproductive health to asses whether they provide integrated care of high quality and provide supportive and advisory mechanisms for improvements
- to conduct a survey (questionnaire) on the scope and quality of work -> recommendations for improvement based on findings
- monitoring counselling and testing procedures -> feedback to the lead person
- provide an educational workshop in the field of quality assurance
- purchase of literature on sexual and reproductive health (books)
- purchase anatomical models for sexual health teaching
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Activities
3.1. Evaluation and improvement of public awareness sexual and reproductive health campaigns
- to conduct a survey (questionnaire) of previous campaigns and make recommendations for improvement based on findings
- Production of educational and promotional materials (leaflets, posters..)
- organisation of national campaigns (in public transport, health facilities, faculties, pharmacies, dormitories, TV, Internet)
- Theater-based sexual health education for adolescents (educational and comic performance (Lucija's story)
6/27/2018
Practical implementation
Implementation progress:
Vizual & slogan are
designed and summer
(2017, 2018) and winter
(2017) campaign was
organized
EducationalperformanceLucija’s story held (Theater
festival)
Questionnaires for
evaluation of VCT services
and campaigns are
designed
Questionnaire for VCT was
sent to respondents
Research about
sex.health education
among young people
conducted (needs
assessment)
The structure of the
handbook designed, the
writing of content in progress
Working group for peer
education
-> 4 meetings
literature was purchased
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Meetings of peer education working groupMultidisciplinary20 members
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Success factors that have facilitated the project
Strengths
• Experience, continuity/sustainability in the implementation of programs and activities
in the area of sexual health and prevention of HIV & STIs
• Successful transition from GF to domestic funding
• Network of stakeholders and professional knowledge of participatory stakeholders
• Collaboration of government institutions and NGOs
• good tripartite cooperation: Ministry of Health → Croatian National Public Health
Institute and 21 county institutes → NGOs.
• Innovation, networking, motivation (enough motivated people)
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Challenges, barriers,
• Insufficient discussion with colleagues
when writing the project proposal
(planning)
• Lack of human resources, changes in
project staff (implementation)
• Technical difficulties (administration,
the procurement process for goods
and services – too long and
complicated)
Opportunities
• Developing human resources -
education, redistribution,
reorganisation of employees,
employing new staff
• Improvement of intersectoral
collaboration
Practical implementation
