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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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