CINDI Highlights • Number 8 - Health Promotion Agency

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Slovenia
Dr Jozica Maucec
Zakotnik
Programme Director
The year’s highlights for CINDI Slovenia included
primary prevention of chronic noncommunicable
disease, and training for health professionals.
CVD preventive programme
The national preventive programme of cardiovascular and
other chronic diseases for the adult population in primary
health care successfully continued countrywide. Medical
preventive check-ups for adults are followed by health
education programmes for patients at higher risk of CVD.
The main goal is to achieve positive changes in lifestyle
and lower early morbidity and mortality.
Local health information system (LIS)
CINDI Slovenia developed LIS to collect information related to
noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors and implemented it in every
family doctor practice. A system was also devised to collect data on risk
factors at the national level via the Internet and to create a register. In 2002,
25% of the adult population were screened.
CINDI Slovenia additionally trained health professionals for managing health
educational workshops in health care centres. There were workshops on
healthy slimming, healthy diet and smoking cessation, with 466 participants.
Nutrition
For World Nutrition Day in October, CINDI Slovenia held activities at national
and local level under the motto ‘Let’s begin the day with breakfast’ and
published a variety of posters, leaflets and booklets.
Physical activity
For the World Health Day theme ‘Move for health’, CINDI Slovenia delivered
different health promotion activities (walk tests, walking and cycling tours,
healthy lifestyle lectures) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the
Institute of Public Health, the Slovenian Heart Foundation and others.
In spring 2002 CINDI Slovenia also organised a 10 week walking programme
for 100 adult citizens of Ljubljana mainly with established risk factors for
chronic diseases. This included weekly walks, lectures on healthy lifestyle and
two walk tests (at the start and finish of the programme).
On average, participants managed to improve their physical fitness index by
five points.
Smoking
Slovenia joined the fifth international Quit and Win smoking cessation
campaign in May. After four weeks of smoking abstinence, 40% of 1,478 adult
participants defined themselves as non-smokers. Ten workshops on smoking
cessation in nine primary health care centres in Slovenia were organised in
parallel with the campaign.
International conference
CINDI Slovenia organised an international conference ‘Promoting health
through physical activity and nutrition’ which took place in Radenci in April.
International experts on health promotion, physical activity and nutrition took
part. A document The Radenci declaration, includes the most important
conference conclusions and is available on WHO websites.
Further information
The CINDI Slovenia Programme is managed by the National Health Insurance
Institute and the Ministry of Health. For more information, please contact the
CINDI Programme Director, Dr Jozica Maucec Zakotnik or CINDI Slovenia
Coordinator, Dr Dominika Novak Mlakar, Ministry of Health of Slovenia,
Stefanova 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tel: +386 1 2517 884/or 4786 001;
Fax: +386 1 4786 079; E-mail: jozica.zakotnik@gov.si or cindi@zd-lj.si