Children`s eating habits and their relationship towards other lifestyle factors: The Implementation of the World Health Organization`s preventive programmes in the Czech Republic

Autor	Jana Fialová
Organisation	Masarykova Univerzita, Lékařská fakulta, Hygiena, preventivní lékařství a epidemiologie
Year	2012
Research type	Ph.D. thesis
Annotation	This paper attempts to describe and, on the basis of research, evaluate the preventive programmes for health promotion in the Czech Republic (in particular the programme Health Promoting Schools – HPS). Through the experimental implementation of a new preventive programme by the World Health Organization, the Nutrition Friendly School Initiative (NFSI), which is aimed more at healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle, this paper will also assess the importance of the school preventive programmes in forming nutritional habits and the prevention of weight problems and obesity amongst children as well as the wider school community.In the first (theoretical) section of the work, the structure and concept of the existing preventive programmes for health promotion are analyzed. In the second (analytical) part of the work there was a description and evaluation of the situation in selected secondary schools in the Czech Republic in the areas of prevention and health education with regard to the requirements of the NFSI preventive programme. The third (experimental) part was dedicated to the trial NFSI preventive programme at three selected primary schools which differed in nature.
Keywords	Czech school environment, school prevention programs, Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative, Health Promoting School, nutrition education
Research type	unrepeated research
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Obor	AM Pedagogy, education, FG Pediatrics, FH Neurology, neurosurgery, neurosciences
Email	fialova@med.muni.cz
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Research location	http://is.muni.cz/th/270898
Organisation	Masarykova Univerzita, Lékařská fakulta, Hygiena, preventivní lékařství a epidemiologie
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