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 REPORT ON SUMMER SCHOOL

Project accomplished with financial aid of Canadian Government, through Canadian International Development Agency

Divčibare June 14th -16th, 2009

 

INTRODUCTION

 Health Promotion Summer School with theme: “Determinants of Health” was held from June 14th to 16th, 2009 at Hotel „Divčibare”.

School was organised by the Public Health Association of Serbia, with support of Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).  

PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SERBIA

Dušanka Matijević

Svetlana Janković

Anđelka Kotević

Snežana Simić

Olja Nićiforović

Snežana Ukropina

Slađana Jović

Gordana Tamburkovski

CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION

Patsy Beattie-Huggan

Marnie Davidson

Sherryl Smith

Technical support

Novak Novaković

Julija Kotal

Aleksandra Vučković

Vladana Đurić

Aleksandar Jevtić

 

2. GOAL AND SCOPE OF WORK

 Objectives of Summer School:

 

·        Participants to gain basic knowledge on determinants of health

·        To improve skills of practical application of the Circle of Health

·        To exchange experiences on health promotional activities in local communities in Canada and our country, which deal with determinants of health

·        To practice application of the Circle of Health by analysing health promotional activities or interventions already conducted or are under way, in our environment.  

Target group:  

Members of Public Health Association of Serbia from Belgrade and other places in Serbia, representatives of University Centres from Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš, members of Public Health Association from the Bosnian Federation, the Republic of Srpska, professionals in the field of public health from Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.  

Content:  

1. day – Welcoming dinner 

2. day - theme – Presentation of model „Circle of Health” - from the Prince Edward Island in Canada 

3. day - theme – summary of previously learned through module “Social determinants of Health”, practice; practice in application of the Circle of Health, after presentation of examples of good practice such as health promotional campaigns in local community related to „Health Calendar”, environment – healthy environments, physical activity and proper (balanced) nutrition  

4. day  - (morning) theme – practice in application of the Circle of Health, through continuing presentations of good practice from Canada – Programs of healthy communities and Housing conditions and health of the children, and Serbia – Strategy for improvement of the position of Roma population in Serbia.  

3. EDUCATIONAL METHODS AND DYNAMICS OF EXECUTION:

 

3.1. Organisation of implementation of the Summer School:  

·        One day seminars (before and after noon) – continuous set of seminars during two and a half days;

·        Interactive training and creative workshops;

·        On completion of each day’s work, after every seminar, participants did daily evaluation by evaluating each individual module;

·        All participants received, on arrival, a branded folder, bag, notebook, book with the logo of PHAS and the Summer School. In the bag, there were: handbook for the Summer School (with the school program, handouts for each of themes), a pen, CD with presentations and materials for workshops, received from Canadian consultants, printed materials with important addresses in Canada, as well as posters, leaflets etc. Each participant received a handbook “Smart book for parents”, translated brochure of EUPHA – “10 principles of the New Public Health” and various health promotional material from campaigns in local communities (tobacco control, proper nutrition, physical activity, healthy environment for our children, etc.), and related to other risk factors for health, i.e. for affirmation of healthy lifestyles.

·        School participants had an opportunity to see health promotional video clips related to campaign “Healthy environment for the health of our children” and the film with the same title of 15 minutes duration;

·        During school work, health promotional ambiance in general was supported, which means tobacco smoke was unwanted wherever the participants dwelled; during work, meals and breaks.

·        As a part of this summer school, on the second day after seminars, in the afternoon, there were organized relaxation exercises, i.e. exercises for stress release, with explanations of their application and effects by the renowned therapist in that field – Mr. Predrag Filipović.

·        Patsy Beattie – Huggan, on the second day, after planned program was finished, held an additional education for all interested participants, of 45 minutes duration, on the possibilities of specific application of the Circle of Health in education of University students.

·        On completion of the Summer School, participants received certificates of participation in the Summer School on “Determinants of Health”. 

 

3.2. Evaluation of results by the School Organisational Team 

On completion of Summer School work, Patsy Beattie – Huggan organised an evaluation where each participant had to tell in his/her own words in what extent did the school fulfil his/her expectations and how will he/she apply acquired knowledge and skills, i.e. the Circle of Health in the future.  

Organisational Team of the school made a SWOT analyses – analyses of Summer School’s work in the sense of reviewing existing a) strengths, b) weaknesses of the school, c) potentials (for further development and improvement) and d) possible future threats for the future of this school.  

A)     It was concluded with pleasure that school showed significant strengths, such as:  

-         Existing experience of participants in the field of health promotion, most of them belonging to well trained professional with significant experience in that field

-         High level of dedication and active participation of all participants to a very demanding program

-         Knowledge and skills of lecturers in this field, so that the school surpassed all expectations of the majority of participants, who were very clear in stating that

-         Evaluation of all on the Circle of Health as an exceptional tool for education of students in universities, and for the field work as well, and in the local community...It was emphasized that the Circle of Health could be used as a „work guide” in all phases of planning: in determining the needs and (priority) goals, as well as for defining target population groups, in choosing strategies or relevant activities and clear, and foremost, for defining determinants of health

-         Developed health promotional ambiance

-         Flexible approaches to work and good technical support

-         Exceptional working conditions

-         Excellent accommodation, food, etc. 

B)     During realization of this school, certain weaknesses were noticed:  

-         School was still very strenuous for participants because work was organized for the entire day, that is, before and after noon every day except the last,

-         Still, we have to keep in mind that last years suggestion for the school to last a bit shorter was adopted: it was two and a half day now, which is not too much, so it was understandable that organizers, as well as the participants wanted to maximally use available excellent working conditions,

-         Due to limited number of participants we did not have media present at the opening of the school (everyone wanted to participate).  

C) It was concluded that school has significant potentials to become traditional form of continuous education in the field of health promotion, especially for the members of PHAS, but also for other NGOs. These potentials include the following:  

-         It was a second year in a row that such a school of health promotion in Serbia was organised,

-         High level of dedication of both participants and lecturers, and desire for knowledge,

-         Evident potential for increasing the number of members and for founding of new branches of the Association,

-         Existing of significant human resources for health promotion in the Association and its branches,

-         Team that organised the school, has human resources and technical capacities so that it can, in the future, independently organise education for representatives of Public Health Association from other republics of former Yugoslavia,

-         This years school was better promoted outside Serbia than previous year, so 10 participant of this year’s school were from former Yugoslav republics,

-         Some other noted weaknesses, i.e. „lessons learned” form previous year were corrected:

-         School lasted shorter – 2,5 days instead of 4 days, it had fewer themes – actually only one „Determinants of Health”, which was very thoroughly treated, foremost due to great potential and broad spectre of applicability of the model of Circle of Health,

-         There were opportunities for taking a break during the day, and as daily schedule ended at 17 hours, there was some time for walking and socialising, too.

 D)    Possible obstacles for future work of the school were also considered:  

-         sustainability,

-         possibility of (self) financing,

-         determining the most suitable time for holding the next Summer School.

 

3.2. Media support

 

3.2.1. In much attended radio programs of “Radio Belgrade” and “Radio 202”, the beginning of the Summer school on the subject of “Determinants of Health” was announced, to be organized in Divčibare by Public Health Association of Serbia, with support of Canadian Government and Canadian Public Health Association.  

3.2.2. Press releases were prepared for daily newspapers “Politika” and “Blic”.  

3.2.3. One of the participants at school filmed the entire event with his camera, and a video-record of the school is in preparation. That material will be used in future work with the media for promoting Summer School. 

 

4. PARTICIPANTS OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL

 

School was attended by 41 participants, and that: 20 from Belgrade, 5 from Novi Sad, 1 from Čačak, 1 from Leskovac, 1 from Kuršumlija, 1 from Vranje, 2 from Niš, 3 from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 5 from Bosnian Federation and 2 from Republic of Srpska.

Profile of participants was inter- and multidisciplinary. In Annex, there is a list of all participants where one could see that there were participants professors from social medicine department of the School of Medicine of the University of Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš, assistants from these schools, professors form Higher health school of professional studies (faculty for nurses), defectologists, psychologists, politicologists, higher medical nurses, specialist of family medicine, physiotherapists, professor of civil education. 

 

4.1 Satisfaction of participants with the Summer School of Health Promotion

– results of evaluation  

On completion of each day’s work, a daily theme evaluation was performed by the participants, having in mind specificity of each area covered that day. 

T H E M E   E V A L U A T I O N S

June 14^th 2009

 

Introductory presentation	4.7
Exercises	4.9
Applicability of what was learned	4.4
Total mark -  according to personal needs and expectations	4.8

June 15^th 2009

Introductory presentation	4.9
Exercises	4.6
Applicability of what was learned	4.8
Total mark -  according to personal needs and expectations	5.0

A. Introductory presentation	5.0
Exercises	4.6
Applicability of what was learned	4.8
Total mark -  according to personal needs and expectations	4.9

A. Introductory presentation	4.9
Exercises	4.7
Applicability of what was learned	4.8
Total mark -  according to personal needs and expectations	4.9

A. Introductory presentation	4.9
Exercises	4.8
Applicability of what was learned	4.8
Total mark -  according to personal needs and expectations	4.9

 

June 16^th 2009

 

Introductory presentation	4.7
Exercises	4.6
Applicability of what was learned	4.8
Total mark -  according to personal needs and expectations	4.6

A. Introductory presentation	4.4
Exercises	4.4
Applicability of what was learned	4.4
Total mark -  according to personal needs and expectations	4.6

A. Introductory presentation	4.9
Exercises	4.9
Applicability of what was learned	4.7
Total mark -  according to personal needs and expectations	4.9

 

F I N A L     E V A L U A T I O N

June 16^th 2009

 

Very useless	Useless	Not sure	Useful	Very useful
			26.4%	73.6%

4.9

4.7

4.8

4.8

4.9

 

- Application of the Circle of Health

- Approach to resolving problems of Roma population, position of Roma in Serbia

- Respect and appreciation, exchange of ideas and experiences with participants

- Development of networks and partnerships          

- Way of organising a seminar

 

 

- We could not learn a lot form the example of the Atlantic Summer Institute

- Introductory presentations were too long                   

- Frequent repetition of exercises by the same model

 

 

 

- To make a project that will animate the community to pay it

- Work with Roma population  

- Education on determinants of health

- How to find partners for projects in public health from the primary health care level position

 

 

- Good organisation of the school

- Participants from other countries could have (should have) presented their experiences

- Repeat the school with intersectoral participants

- At the end of the school assign a task to all participants to do in the following year, which would be a kind of cohesive factor

- More practice examples from Canada  

 

A.  Introductory presentations	4.8
B.  Exercises	4.6
C.    Applicability of what was learned	4.6
D.    Total mark -  according to personal needs and expectations	4.8

 

 

 P R O G R A M

 

Date/time	Topic	Lecturers
June 13, 2009
18.00 – 19.00	Registration
19.00 – 21.00	Welcome dinner
June 14, 2009	Understanding the Concepts of Determinants of Health
9.00 – 10.00	School overview and participants introduction
10.00 – 10.30	Break
10.30 – 12.30	The Circle of Health	Patsy Beattie-Huggan, Sherryl Smith
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 16.00	The Circle of Health	Patsy Beattie-Huggan, Sherryl Smith
16.00 – 16.15	Evaluation

 

PARTICIPANTS

 

No.	NAME	ORGANISATION	PROFESSION
0	1	2	3
1.	VESNA MIJATOVIĆ JOVANOVIĆ	INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH OF VOJVODINA	SPEC. OF SOC. MED
2.	SNEŽANA UKROPINA	INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH OF VOJVODINA	SPEC. OF SOC. MED
3.	ERŽEBET AČ NIKOLIĆ	INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH OF VOJVODINA	SPEC. OF SOC. MED
4.	MILKA POPOVIĆ	INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH OF VOJVODINA	SPEC. OF HYGIENE
5.	MARJAN DENKOVSKI	INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH OF KUMANOVO	SPEC. OF SOC. MED
6.	MARIKA KARANFILOVA	CENTRE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH SKOPLJE	SPEC. OF SOC. MED
7.	RADMILA MAKSIMOVSKA SIMONOVSKA	CENTRE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH KUMANOVO	SPEC. OF SOC. MED
8.	OLjA NIĆIFOROVIĆ ŠURKOVIĆ	INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH N. SAD	SPEC. OF SOC. MED
9.	BOSILjKA ĐIKANOVIĆ	SCHOOL OF MEDICINE BELGRADE UNIV.	DR ASSISTENT
10.	ALEKSANDRA JOVIĆ VRANEŠ	SCHOOL OF MEDICINE BELGRADE UNIV.	DR ASSISTENT
11.	JANKO JANKOVIĆ	SCHOOL OF MEDICINE BELGRADE UNIV.	DR ASSISTENT
12.	VUKAČ VUJANAC	SCHOOL OF MEDICINE BELGRADE UNIV.	DR ASSISTANT IN TEACHING
13.	IGOR SMILjANIĆ	PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC HEALTH OF BIH	PROF. OF CIVIL EDUCATION
14.	ZANA DURAKOVIĆ	PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC HEALTH OF BIH	PHYSIOTHERAPIS
15.	MERIMA HADžIABDIĆ	CITY OF SARAJEVO, CITY GOVERNMENT	PSYCHOLOGIST
16.	SERGEJ LAZAROV	CITY PUBLIC HEALTH INST. BELGRADE	PHYSICIAN
17.	ZORICA DIMITRIJEVIĆ	CITY PUBLIC HEALTH INST. BELGRADE	SPEC. OF SOC. MED
18.	GORDANA MARKOVIĆ PETROVIĆ	PHCC ZEMUN	PHYSICIAN
19.	DUŠANKA ŠARENAC	HIGHER MED. SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES	MSc OF DEFECT. SCIENCES
20.	LENKA BABIĆ	HIGHER MED. SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES	DEFECTOLOGIST
No.	NAME	ORGANISATION	PROFESSION
0	1	2	3
21.	SONJA ĐIKANOVIĆ	PHCC PALILULA, BELGRADE	SPEC. OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
22.	NADA LAZOVIĆ	HEALT C. CENTRE	PNEUMOFTIZIOLOGIST
23.	BRANKICA MARKOVIĆ	PHCC BANjA LUKA	SPEC OF FAMILY MEDICINE
24.	TATJANA MAKOVSKI	PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF R. OF SRPSKA	PHYSICIAN
25.	VANjA ILIĆ	INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH LESKOVAC	SPEC. OF SOC. MEDICINE
26.	SVETLANA STOJANOVIĆ	INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH VRANjE	SPEC. OF SOC. MEDICINE
27.	SLAĐANA SAVIĆ	PHCC KURŠUMLIJA	SPEC. OF GENERAL MEDICINE
28.	ČEDOMIR ŠARGIĆ	SCHOOL OF MED, UNIV.OF NIŠ, IPH NIŠ	SPEC. OF SOC. MEDICINE
29.	SPOMENKA ĆIRIĆ JANKOVIĆ	CITY MUNICIPALITY OF NOVI BEOGRAD	COUNCILOR FOR  SOC. POLICY
30.	SLAĐANA JOVIĆ	SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, UNIV. OF NIŠ	SPEC. OF SOC. MEDICINE
31.	TAMARA MITIĆ TASEVSKI	PHCC PALILULA BELGRADE	SPEC. OF SOC. MEDICINE
32.	SUBHIJA BEZDROB	PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE OF BIH	HIGHER MED. NURSE
33	AZRA SPAHIĆ	PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE OF BIH	HIGHER MED. TECHNICIAN
34.	GORDANA TAMBURKOVSKI	CITY PUBLIC HEALTH INST. BELGRADE	SPEC. OF SOC. MEDICINE
35.	SVETLANA MLADENOVIĆ JANKOVIĆ	CITY PUBLIC HEALTH INST. BELGRADE	SPEC. OF SOC. MEDICINE
36.	VLADANA ĐURIĆ	CITY PUBLIC HEALTH INST. BELGRADE	HIGHER MED. NURSE
37.	ALEKSANDRA VUČKOVIĆ	CITY PUBLIC HEALTH INST. BELGRADE	HIGHER MED. NURSE
38.	JULIJA KOTAL	RED CROSS OF  BELGRADE, PHAS	POLITICOLOGIST
39.	SNEŽANA SIMIĆ	SCHOOL OF MED, INST. FOR SOC. MEDICINE	PHYSICIAN, PROFESSOR
40.	DUŠICA MATIJEVIĆ	CITY PUBLIC HEALTH INST. BELGRADE	PHYSICIAN, ASSIS. DIRECTOR
41.	ANĐELKA KOTEVIĆ	CITY PUBLIC HEALTH INST. BELGRADE	HIGHER MED. NURSE