Plenary 1: The Hospital – A Staff Empowering ... - HPH-Conference
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Parallel Sessions<br />
Parallel Sessions 1: Thursday, April 12, 2007, 11.00-12.30<br />
Geriatric Institute<br />
Palazzolo Institute, Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation - Onlus<br />
Via L. Palazzolo, 21<br />
20149 Milan<br />
ITALY<br />
+39 023 970 34 10<br />
ipisoni@dongnocchi.it<br />
http://dongnocchi.it<br />
Session 1-2:<br />
Health promotion for children<br />
and adolescents in hospitals<br />
Health promotion for children and<br />
adolescents by hospitals (<strong>HPH</strong>-CA):<br />
update on task force activities<br />
Fabrizio Simonelli, Katalin Majer, Maria José<br />
Caldes Pinilla<br />
Background<br />
Within the international <strong>HPH</strong> network there is a specific Task<br />
Force active on the theme of health promotion for children and<br />
adolescents by hospitals (<strong>HPH</strong>-CA). Its mission is to "apply <strong>HPH</strong><br />
principles and criteria to the specific issues of children and<br />
adolescents, providing an organic conceptual and operational<br />
framework as an authoritative scientific support".<br />
<strong>The</strong> attention was focused on the following priority thematic<br />
areas: definition of specific conceptual and operational background;<br />
promotion of the respect of children’s rights in hospitals;<br />
mapping and evaluation of current practices of health<br />
promotion addressed to children and adolescents in hospitals;<br />
<strong>HPH</strong>-CA Online Community. <strong>The</strong> Task force meets twice a year:<br />
in specific workshops and in the annual international <strong>HPH</strong><br />
conferences.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most significant developments of action carried out in the<br />
last year:<br />
� <strong>HPH</strong>-CA Background: in the last international <strong>HPH</strong> conference<br />
the "Background document on Health promotion for<br />
children and adolescents by hospitals (<strong>HPH</strong>-CA)" elaborated<br />
by the Task force has been presented; now its updated<br />
version is being prepared.<br />
� Children’s rights in hospitals: in order to increase the<br />
awareness on this theme, specific actions have been<br />
started up (contacts with international/national/local authorities<br />
and elaboration of draft "Recommendations on<br />
Children’s Rights in <strong>Hospital</strong>").<br />
� Current practices: a plan for mapping and evaluation of<br />
current practices has been elaborated, and a template for<br />
their collection is being finalised.<br />
� <strong>HPH</strong>-CA Online Community: a six months long experimentation<br />
was conducted with the support of EFQUEL (European<br />
Foundation for Quality in E-learning), based on an online<br />
platform. Now the evaluation process and definition of future<br />
work perspectives is in progress.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Task force is also continuing its efforts in building up links<br />
with another bodies at international level, and in particular with<br />
the Child and Adolescent Health and Development Programme<br />
of the WHO Regional Office for Europe.<br />
Contact<br />
Dr. Fabrizio SIMONELLI<br />
Head<br />
Health Promotion Programme - A. Meyer University Children's<br />
<strong>Hospital</strong><br />
Viale Gramsci, 42 (6th floor)<br />
50132 Florence<br />
ITALY<br />
+39 055 200 63 12<br />
f.simonelli@meyer.it<br />
http://www.meyer.it/hph/hph-ca<br />
Report on the actions in 2006 of the<br />
task group on the rights of children in<br />
hospital (<strong>HPH</strong>-CA Task Force)<br />
Giuliana Filippazzi, Katalin Majer, Maria José<br />
Caldes Pinilla, Fabrizio Simonelli<br />
At the 3rd Workshop on Health Promotion for Children and<br />
Adolescents by <strong>Hospital</strong>s (<strong>HPH</strong>-CA) held in Florence Dec. 2-3,<br />
2005 it was agreed that the members of the Task Group on<br />
Children’s Rights in <strong>Hospital</strong> contact the national/local authorities<br />
for children’s rights requesting an interview/audience with<br />
the following purposes:<br />
� To inform the authorities about the activity of the <strong>HPH</strong>-CA<br />
Task force.<br />
� To ask the authorities to check, promote and support the<br />
implementation of the children’s rights in the country’s hospitals,<br />
through the adoption of special charters and relative<br />
check tools in the single hospitals. As an example, the<br />
EACH (European Association for Children in <strong>Hospital</strong>) Charter<br />
was presented, which is fully in line with the UN Convention<br />
on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), ratified by all EU<br />
Countries, that includes several articles referring to children’s<br />
health matters.<br />
In spite of the limited official reactions to the letter, something<br />
has started moving in the various countries for the implementation<br />
of the rights of children in hospital. Very encouraging<br />
responses came from Austria and Hungary.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>HPH</strong>-CA Task Force, on proposal of the specific Task<br />
Group also prepared the Recommendations on Children’s<br />
Rights in <strong>Hospital</strong>, that has been presented in draft version in<br />
the last international <strong>HPH</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> of Palanga, Lithuania<br />
(May, 2006). Update on this issue will be given in the forthcoming<br />
international <strong>Conference</strong> of Vienna, based on the decisions<br />
taken during the 4th <strong>HPH</strong>-CA Workshop of Florence (November<br />
20, 2006).<br />
<strong>The</strong> results of these actions will also be presented at the EACH<br />
(European Association for Children in <strong>Hospital</strong>) <strong>Conference</strong> in<br />
Vienna (April 12-14, 2007).<br />
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