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Latest news
HPH and ENSH Memorandum of Understanding is now Official
It is a great pleasur to announce that the proposed and agreed Memorandum of Understanding between HPH and ENSH Global (Global Network for Tobacco Free Health Care Services) was signed on Friday April 13th 2012 at the 20th International HPH Conference in Taiwan. Signing of the MoU.
The International HPH Network has now developed it's linkedin presence
A group for the International HPH Network has been created at the social media site for professionals, linkedin.com.
The group has been created to stimulate regular conversations and information exchange about HPH topics, issues and events across countries and regions. Joining this group makes it easy to discuss HPH topics and to share knowledge and experience from anywhere in the world.
For more information go HERE
Visit from the Czech Health Minister
March 1st 2012 The Czech Health Minister Leos Heger visited WHO-CC, Bispebjerg Hospital and Frederiksberg Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark, for a meeting on how Denmark and The Czech Republic work with quality and prevention. Present at the meeting were amongst others representatives from the Danish Health and Prevention Ministry, WHO Denmark and the Czech Republic Embassy.
To read the whole article and see pictures from the visit click HERE
15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Singapore in March 2012!
The title for the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health is: “Towards a Tobacco- Free World: Planning Globally, Acting Locally”.
The 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health will take place in Singapore with a Pre-Conference March 19-20. 2012, and the Main Conference March 20-24. 2012.
To read the whole article and for more information about the conference click here
WHO-HPH Winter School 2012 in Bangkok
The WHO HPH Winter School took place on 21 - 24 of February 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand. It was a very fruitful meeting with the title "Networking and Collaboration for HPH Sustainability: Better Health Gain for Patients, Staff and Community".
To read more click HERE
HPH Twinning - Get started Today!
With the new HPH Twinning you can search for a relevant Twin or sign up as actively looking for a Twin. Sign up already today.
The concept of Twinning has been applied in many areas (the EU twinning of cities is one). The idea of transferring twinning to an HPH context is to provide a framework under which hospitals/health services, National/Regional Networks or Task Forces can join forces and take action, share knowledge and experiences, promote education and awareness, exchange know-how, form ties of collaboration and so forth – all in order to enhance their HPH progress and development.
For more information on Twinning, read the Twinning Strategy
To find a Twin or sign up for Twinning - click here
HPH Entry and Exit Forms
The Governance Board has approved the HPH Entry and Exit Forms, which are documents that all new HPH members or ceasing HPH members should fill out.
Please use a few moments to fill out the form if you are a new or a ceasing HPH member, to help us improve in the future. Thank you very much.
The paper version of the Entry Form can be found HERE
The Online version of the Entry Form can be found HERE
The paper version of the Exit form can be found HERE
The Online version of the Exit form can be found HERE
Affiliated Membership of the International Network
of Health Promoting Hospitals & Health Services
The global growth and development of HPH has increased the interest in collaboration, affiliation andsupport from external entities. In 2009, the HPH General Assembly therefore decided to establish an
Affiliated HPH Membership category, in accordance with the HPH Constitution Article II §3, for entities
that support HPH but are not eligible for normal hospital or health service membership.
A documents has been finalized that outlines the rules for Affiliated Members, the regulations for formalizing the
collaboration and the guidelines for the National/Regional level (GB Meeting Report, December 2010).
Read the whole document HERE
HPH Coordinators' Summer School 2012
The Coordinators' Summer School 2012 will take place in Taipei, Taiwan, April 10, 2012, as an extension of the general HPH Summer School which starts April 8, 2012.
Although the General Assembly in 2010 articulated a strong need for a Coordinator School event, the Coordinators' Summer School in 2011 had a very low participation rate.
For 2012 we would like to advice as many Coordinators as possible to participate in the Coordinators' Summer School in Taiwan, as it is a unique opportunity to share and exchange knowledge about Health Promotion work with the other only about 40 Coordinators in the world.
To read more and see the preliminary progam for the Coordinators Summer School 2012 go here
HPH Awards - call for nominations!
The Governance Board has established three new HPH awards which any HPH member Hospital/Health Service can be nominated for. The three awards are:
Outstanding Fulfilment of WHO HPH Standards
Outstanding Fulfilment of HPH Strategy
Outstanding Scientific Publication
This years deadline has been postponed to January 20th, 2012, so hurry up and make your nominations!
To find out more about the HPH awards and about how to nominate, click here.
Index Regulation of HPH Fees
As decided by the HPH General Assembly and Governance Board, HPH membership fee levels have now been scheduled for index regulation to accommodate for general inflation etc. But not to alter standing agreements (Letters of Intent), the fee raise will only be implemented gradually throughout 2015, as members gradually renew their Letters of Intent.
The aim is that by the end of 2015, the index regulated fee will thus have been implemented with all members.
To find out more about the adjusted 2015 HPH fee levels, please see the article about Index Regulation of HPH Fees
First Member in Indonesia!
We are very pleased to inform everyone that Indonesia now has their first member of the International HPH Network – the R. Syamsudin, SH Regional Hospital.
Welcoming the first member from Indonesia is amazing progress for the HPH Network, and we look forward to a fruitful collaboration in future for the benefit of patients, staff and communities all over Indonesia.
International HPH Conference 2012 - information now online!
The 20th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (HPH) on April 11th to 13th is truly an event to look forward to. For one thing, taking place in Taipei City, it is the very first HPH conference arranged in a location outside Europe. Also, being the 20th year of the conference, it is time to reflect upon what HPH has originally set out to do, what the network has achieved so far, and what challenges and changes for the future lie ahead.
Go to the conference website www.hph2012.com
Register here.
Conference programme here.
WHO-HPH Autumn School 2011 in Taiwan
On October 22-23. 2011 The WHO-HPH Autumn School was held with great success in Taipei City, Taiwan. The school was an advanced course on the WHO-HPH Recognition Project. Participating were more than 80 representatives from more than 15 Taiwanese hospitals.
Read the whole article here.
HPH participation in SEEHN Third Health Ministers Forum in Banja Luka
The HPH network was very happy to be participating in the South-eastern Europe Health Network’s (SEEHN) Third Health Ministers Forum: “Health in All Policies in South-eastern Europe: A shared Goal and Responsibility”, held in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 13-14 October 2011. The Forum was co-organized by the South-eastern Europe Health Network, the Council of Europe, the Council of Europe Development Bank, the European Commission and WHO Regional Office for Europe, and hosted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Ministries of Health of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the auspices of the Regional Cooperation Council.
Read the whole article here.
Minister visits WHO HPH Autumn School in the Czech Republic
The WHO HPH School in Prague, held on September 12.-13. 2011, was a great succes for all parties. It was a major opportunity for Czech health professionals to gain insight and share inspiration in the area of Health Promotion in hospitals and health services. The meeting facilitated a close collaboration and sharing of experience, and allowed the participants to get inspired, get hands-on involvment and get ready for their own HP work. The purpose of the School was to bring about key knowledge on the HPH concept and its benefits to a wider Czech healthcare environment needed to develop HPH in the Czech Republic. This purpose was achieved very succesfully.
Read the whole article here.
2012 International HPH Conference in Taiwan
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Clinical Health Promotion - The HPH Scientific Journal
At the 2011 International HPH Conference in Finland, the very first issue of "Clinical Health Promotion – Research and Best Practice for Patients, Staff and Community” was distributed. The journal is the official journal of HPH and it features new health promotion knowledge, insights and experiences from all corners of the world. To find out more, please visit the journals website, clinhp.org, where you can also download the first issues and those to come.
First members in Portugal!
We are very pleased to inform everyone that Portugal now has their first member of the International HPH Network – the O Porto Hospital Centre in Porto. Furthermore the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro Hospital Centre has also just filed their application.
We are of course very happy to welcome these new members and any future hospitals / health services from Portugal to the Network. Also, we can safely say that this amazing progress is greatly thanks to the hard work and dedication of the Portuguese High Commissioner for Health, Maria do Céu Machado and her excellent staff.
To mark the important occasion of the very first Portuguese HPH members, the high Commissioner said:
I received with great pleasure the news of the first official memberships by Portuguese Hospitals to the HPH Network, namely the O Porto Hospital Centre and the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro Hospital Centre. The Office of the High Commissioner in Portugal recognises the significant work of the HPH Network in the health promotion field and has made an effort to facilitate membership across the country. With these memberships, I hope we have taken the first steps into establishing a Portuguese HPH Network in the near future.
The HPH Network is thrilled to welcome Portugal and the members to the Network and look forward to a fruitful collaboration in future for the benefit of patients, staff and communities all over Portugal.
N/R Coordinators' Workshop 2011
The program for the experienced N/R Coordinators' Workshop at the WHO HPH Summer School in Turku is now finalised. (Click below to download)
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HPH in Practice - The Gold Standard Programme: A Smoke Free Operation.
The WHOCC for Evidence-Based Health Promotion in Hospitals & Health Services in Copenhagen proudly presents the 2011 course on HPH in Practice.
The course is a certified course on master level (2 ECTS), and once the new Nordic Master of Clinical HP is launched officially in 2012 the course can be fully integrated as part of it.
Date & Venue:
June 6 - 8, 2011 (each day from 09.00 - 17.00)
The course take place at the WHOCC, Bispebjerg University Hospital in Copenhagen:
WHOCC
Bispebjerg University Hospital
Bispebjerg Bakke 23, 20C, Ground Floor
2400 Copenhagen NV
Denmark
Good practices: Children’s rights in hospitals and other health services
In 2009 the Task Force on Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents in and by Hospitals and Health Services (HPH-CA) (International Network on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services - HPH) prepared and implemented the Self-evaluation Model and Tool on children’s rights in hospital (SEMT) in a select group of 17 hospitals. This process enabled the Task Force HPH-CA to:
- Map the practices in a selected group of hospitals in 10 countries regarding the respect of children’s rights in hospital;
- Identify working methodologies, which may be used by other hospitals and health services;
- Assess the effectiveness, gaps and positive aspects of the SEMT;
- Engage with a large number of professionals working for children.
Parallel to this process and to enhance this work, the Task Force HPH-CA has:
- Established contacts with other groups of hospitals and countries working in this field;
- Identified the need to collect, disseminate and exchange knowledge about what hospitals and health services are doing and how;
- Planned to expand its work, by working with a larger group of countries, to work in further settings, namely in developing countries, to engage a larger number of professionals, as well as, professional societies and to continuously improve the quality of this work.
This collection of good practices aims at learning, disseminating and exchanging hospitals’ and health services’ experiences in assessing, improving and working around the respect of children’s rights in hospitals and health services. All hospitals and health services, within and outside the HPH Network are invited to submit their practices. We welcome new countries, as well as, hospitals and health services that have been using other methodologies and tools other than the SEMT.
For more information, please vist the HPH CA Task Force Sub-Site here at HPHNET.ORG
HPH Newsletter Issue 48
We are pleased to inform you that issue 48 of the HPH Newsletter is now available for download at
http://www.hph-hc.cc/Downloads/Newsletters/hph_newsletter_48.pdf
Please note already now that the deadline for contributions for HPH Newsletter 49 will be April 15, 2011.
HPH in Slovenia
On March 10, 2011, a meeting of hospitals and health services interested in HPH membership was held. Taking part in the meeting to support the development were both representatives from the Slovenian Ministry of health and Dr. Marijan Ivanusa, head of the WHO Country Office in Slovenia.
The meeting took place in Slovenia's beautiful capital, Ljubljana, and among the key points on the agenda were discussions such as how to get further ahead with HPH memberships in Slovenia, how to move towards establishing a national HPH network and much more. Many of the hospital representative also shared very inspiring cases of the many health promoting initiatives taking place all over the country's health care system. Likewise, Slovenian interest in international HPH Task Forces was discussed, and hopefully Slovenian participation in the work will be made reality soon.
Finally, Prof. Hanne Tønnesen, CEO of the International HPH Secretariat, personally presented the HPH Membership Certificate to the representatives of the University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases in Golnik, who have recently joined HPH (as the second member in the country).
The next meeting of the interested Slovenian Hospitals and Health Services will be organised by the Ministry of Health very soon, and it will be focused on getting more HPH members in Slovenia. Preliminary discussions of how to establish and anchor a national HPH network, to the best possible benefit of both patients, staff and community, will also be on the agenda.
Also read: WHO publication "Health Inequalities in Slovenia"
Irish HPH Network in search of new coordinator
Long-time Irish HPH Network Coordinator, Ann O'Riordan, has left her position. While the search is initiated for a new coordinator, Dr. Nazih Eldin, who is the HSE Regional Manager for Health Promotion within the Irish Health Services Executive (HSE), will temporarily be the contact person for the network.
Ann O'Riordan has been working with HPH for nearly 18 years and she has played a great role in supporting the development and integration of the WHO concepts for HPH into the Irish Health Services.
Please note that all future communication and contact to the Irish HPH Network should from now on be sent to the new contact email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
List of Hospitals and Health Services
The list of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services is almost updated on the website. The lists of Swedish and Polish members are not available yet, but we hope to publish them soon.
HPHNET.ORG - the new HPH website
Welcome to the new HPH website. The address for it is either hphnet.org or hphnetwork.org. Both direct the user here.
This site will be replacing the old HPH website so take your time to look around.
HPH is now on facebook and Twitter
The International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals & Health Services now has official facebook and twitter presence. We would like to invite all of you to follow us there.
Also, for purposes of discussions and comments, there is of course the HPH facebook wall, but there is also a member forum here on HPHNET that you can use - whichever is easier for you.
On our Twitter, we will be giving regular tweets on news and other developments in the HPH world.
WHOCC.DK - the new website of the WHO CC in Copenhagen
WHO CC has a new website containing up to date information on teachinh and training, research, the Smoking Cessation Database, the International HPH Network and much more - please check it out here!
WHO and HPH Memorandum of Understanding - now signed!
In late 2010, the long awaited WHO/HPH Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by WHO Euro Regional Director, Zsuzsanna Jakab, CEO of the International Secretariat, Hanne Tønnesen, and Chairman of the HPH Governance Board, Louis Coté.
The signed document was celebrated in a ceremony at the December 10 HPH Governance Board meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, and it was presented by WHO Regional Advisor, Maria Haralanova, who at the same time extended WHO's warmest congratulations to the International HPH Network on the achievement.
Download the WHO / HPH Memorandum of Understanding here
Download full Governance Board meeting report here
CLINHP.ORG - the website for the new Journal of Clinical Health Promotion
The newly established "Journal of Clinical Health Promotion - Research and Best Practice for patients, staff and community" has taken the first baby-steps towards a website. The overall site is online and ready, but now a large work developing the peer-reviewing system, article submit system and much more will begin - you kan keep up to date on the progress here and at clinhp.org
HPH Letter of Intent - now online!
The HPH Letter of Intent is the means by which new hospitals / health services apply for HPH membership. Traditionally, to submit such an application required posting the Letter of Intent in the mail. Now, however, it can all be done online.
Although a scan of the actual signature is, for juridical reasons, still required, this makes becoming an HPH (or renewing membership) much easier.
The 2010 International Conference on Healthy Hospitals & Healthy Environment
The 2010 International Conference on Healthy Hospitals & Healthy Environment was be held in Taipei, Taiwan on Oct. 22-23, 2010. Dr. Shu-Ti Chiou, the leader of the Task Force, welcomed everyone with interest to join the conference...
WHO-HPH Autumn School 2010, Republic of Korea
The WHO HPH Autumn School 2010 was held at Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center on the 26th and 27th of October 2010.
The WHO HPH Schools are opportunities to gain insight and inspiration in the area of Health Promotion in hospitals and health services...
