tailieunhanh - Standards of Practice for Health Promotion in Higher Education

Despite these problems, even conservative countries have made headway in incorporating high quality sexuality education in the schools. Although not an easy or quick process, opposition to sexuality education can be diminished through active engagement of religious leaders, parents, and teacher groups. Advocates for sexuality education in Nigeria must plan accordingly for such long-term engagement and not expect overnight success. It is also important to involve young people themselves in the advocacy effort in as many ways as possible and to give parents better skills for transmitting information on sexuality and reproductive health to their children. . | MAY 2012 ACHA Guidelines Standards of Practice for Health Promotion in Higher Education Third Edition May 2012 Introduction and Guiding Principles In 1996 the American College Health Association ACHA appointed the Task Force on Health Promotion in Higher Education to study the scope of practice of health promotion in a higher education setting and develop professional standards of practice Zimmer Hill Sonnad 2003 . ACHA first published the culmination of that research as the Standards of Practice for Health Promotion in Higher Education SPHPHE in 2001 a revised edition was published in 2005. Like previous editions the third edition serves as a guideline for the assessment and quality assurance of health promotion in higher education. The third edition also acknowledges additions to the body of knowledge and makes explicit the scope of practice and essential functions for the field. The new SPHPHE are guided by several principles Health is the capacity of individuals and communities to reach their potential. Health is not simply the absence of disease measured through clinical indicators but a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources as well as physical capacities World Health Organization WHO 1986 . The specific purpose of health promotion in higher education is to support student success. In the higher education setting good health enables student success by creating health supporting environments -that is both the physical and the social aspects of our surroundings WHO 1991 . Specific health promotion initiatives aim to expand protective factors and campus strengths and reduce personal campus and community health risk factors. This is done in alignment with the missions and values of institutions of higher education IHEs . IHEs are communities. IHEs possess all of the components of a community - that is functional spatial units units of patterned social interaction and symbolic units of collective identity Glanz Rimer Lewis 2002 - and therefore

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