HEALTH PROMOTION PACKAGES - Sundhedsstyrelsen

Reading to inspire action: The Danish Health and Medicines Authority collaborateswith the Danish Family Planning Association in preparing inspirational materialfor municipalities and other stakeholders in connection with condom campaigns.As part of the Uge Sex campaign, the Danish Family Planning Associationdisseminates inspirational material for schools that have signed up for the campaign.(B) Services for older people and people with a chronic diseaseThe municipality ensures that people with a chronic disease receive informationabout how the disease might affect sexuality and intimate relationships and how tomanage potential problems. Moreover, the municipality should disseminate informationto older people about how ageing could affect sexuality and ways to managethese changes.(B) Communicating knowledge about counselling servicesThe municipality’s frontline personnel who are in contact with young people informthem about relevant information and counselling services.Reading to inspire action: Material in Danish can be ordered from the DanishFamily Planning Association www.sexlinien.dk. LGBT Denmark (Danish NationalOrganisation for Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgendered Persons) operatesa telephone hotline where these groups can ask for advice. AIDS-Fondetwww.aidsfondet.dk provides information about the checkpoints for HIV and syphilistesting and counselling in cities in Denmark.(B) Information for people not of Danish ethnic originThe municipality supports the access of people not of Danish ethnic origin to informationabout contraception and sexuality in their native languages.Reading to inspire action: The Danish Health and Medicines Authority has developedpublications in multiple languages, and the Danish Committee for HealthEducation and the Danish Family Planning Association also offer some material.(B) Information about sex education for parents who are not ethnic DanesThe municipality ensures that the parents of children who are not of Danish ethnicorigin receive information describing the purpose and content of sex education inschool. Reading to inspire action: The Danish Family Planning Association andSex & Health provide information and guidance on these initiatives. In addition,the Municipality of Aarhus www.aarhus.dk has experiences from several initiativeslaunched to involve ethnic minorities.(D) Education at language schools for immigrantsThe municipality ensures that students attending language schools for immigrantsare offered education in sexuality and contraception.Reading to inspire action: Danish Health and Medicines Authority, Kvinder ogsundhed [Women and health]; and The Danish healthcare system, available in severallanguages.(B) Basic level(D) Developmental levelHealth promotion packages in Denmark – introduction and recommendations 37