“Building School Partnership for Health,
Education Achievements and Development
- the Education Perspective”
WHO Technical Meeting
on
Building School Partnership for Health,
Education Achievements and Development
By
Dr. Charuaypon TORRANIN
Permanent Secretary for Education, THAILAND
11.45-12.30 Tuesday, 5 June 2007,
Vancouver, Canada
Presentation Outline
1. Global Trends & Issues in Education
 2. Education & Health Partnership
 3. Global & Regional Partnership
 4. National & Local Partnership
 5. Thailand Showcase
 6. Active Partnership
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Global Trends in Education
Focusing Issues:
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Schooling of the future
Demand-driven education
Major curriculum reviews
Quality across the system
Network/broader partnerships
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Global Trends in Education
Networks/Partnerships of Learning:
 demand
for public accountability
horizontal partnership
 democratic exchange
 mutual stimulation
 motivation
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Global Trends in Education
Types of Modern Education Networks
Community
of Practice
Networked organization
Virtual Community
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Education and Health as the Basis of
Partnerships in School Health
Promotion : the Need for Action
(Jack T. Jones, WHO, Geneva)
-Education
is a prerequisite for health.
-Healthy children learn well.
-Schools have a powerful influence on
school and community health:
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promotion
intervention
prevention
-School
health.
attendance is affected by
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Recently Agreed Principles on
Partnership between Health and
Education (Jack T. Jones, WHO, Geneva)
1. Broad actions at the international,
national and local level:
- expand investment in schooling
- expand the educational participation of
girls.
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Recently Agreed Principles on Partnership
between Health and Education
(Jack T. Jones, WHO, Geneva)
2. All schools should:
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provide a safe learning and working
environment
serve as an entry point for health
promotion and a location for health
intervention, &
enable young people at all levels to learn
about critical health issues & life skills. 8
Recently Agreed Principles on Partnership
between Health and Education
(Jack T. Jones, WHO, Geneva)
3. Develop policies, legislation and
guidelines to ensure the identification,
mobilization and coordination of
resources at the local, national and
international level.
4. Value teachers and school staff and
provide them with the necessary support
to enable them to promote health.
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Recently Agreed Principles on Partnership
between Health and Education
(Jack T. Jones, WHO, Geneva)
5. Encourage communities and
schools to work together
6. Design, monitor and evaluate
school health programmes
7. Build international support for
health promotion in schools.
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Present Status on HPS in Most Countries
Strengths
1. Health Education in
Weaknesses
1. Low priority, low budget
2. Limited health personnel
3. Low support from
families and community
Opportunities
1. Strong partnership with
health related agencies
2. Active participation
internationally
Threats
1. New diseases
2. Risky, social behaviors
curriculum
2. Health issues on
national agenda
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School Health: the Present
Education Perspective
1. Theory versus practice
- Life- skills learning
- New, innovative
teaching resources
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School Health: the Present
Education Perspective
2. School health services and
specially designed
extracurricular activities for
health practices and attitudes
are needed for MOPH
partnership support.
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School Health: the Present
Education Perspective
3. MOE health policies
depend on political
support from the Minister
and the government.
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School Health: the Present
Education Perspective
4. Global, regional, and international
health policies are a good idea but
often set unattainable goals for low
income countries, and particularly in
the poorest parts of a country.
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School Health: the Present
Education Perspective
5. Building school partnerships:
- Professional team
- Clearly defined roles
- Satisfying the needs of
the partners
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School Health: the Present
Education Perspective
6. Community Partnership
 Good
leadership & team work
 Capacity building
 Change management
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Global Partnership: the FRESH
Initiative
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Making the Most of Global
Organization Partnerships
1. Understand how each
organization functions
2. Join all available
programs and projects
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Making the Most of Global
Organization Partnerships
3. Keep up-to date
4. Identify potential resource
persons
5. Assign a coordinator
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Regional Partnership
1. Make direct contact with
regional/local offices
2. Transform knowledge into
concrete actions
3. Establish regional standards and
benchmarks
4. Conduct research on common
regional health issues
5. Develop personal relationships
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Strengthening National
Partnership
1. Engage key policy makers from
relevant agencies
2. Appoint coordinators and link to
counterparts
3. Establish a National
Coordinating Committee.
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Strengthening National
Partnership
4. Set the political and
professional agendas
5. Appoint Executive Board
members
6. Develop shared agreements
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Strengthening National
Partnership
7. Identify key stakeholders
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Ministry of Public Health
Health related agencies
Education related agencies :
PTAs, academic associations,
universities etc.
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Strengthening National
Partnership
8. Ensure the partnership adds
value to both organizations:
- achievable goals
- formal partnerships
- leadership by
someone with skills
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Local Partnership :3 Approaches
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1. A Whole School Approach to
Health Promotion
(School -Based Management)
 2 Schools as Core Social Centers
(Community-Based Development
Approach)
 3. Academic Networks
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Local Partnership :
1. A Whole School Approach to
Health Promotion
(1) Ensure students feel they have some
sense of ownership in the life of the
school
(2) Encourage use of diverse teaching and
learning strategies
(3) Allow adequate time for class-based
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and out of class activities
Local Partnership :
1. A Whole School Approach to Health Promotion
(4) Explore health issues within the
context of the students lives and
community
(5) Develop teaching and learning
strategies which adopt a whole school
approach rather than primarily a
classroom learning approach
(6) Provide on-going capacity building
opportunities for teachers and
associated staff
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Local Partnership :
1. A Whole School Approach to Health Promotion
(7) Build an excellent social
environment which fosters open
and honest relationships within the
school community
(8) Ensure consistency of approach
across the school and between the
school, home and wider community
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Local Partnership :
1. A Whole School Approach to Health
Promotion
(9) Give a sense of direction through
the goals of the school and clear
and unambiguous leadership and
administrative support
(10) Create a democratic and
participatory school community
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Local Partnership :
2. Schools as Core Social Centers
(Community-Based Development Approach)
(1) Look for all community partners
(2) Partnerships with a range of
specialist services partnership
(3) Making schools more accountable
to parents and the public
(4) Schools as focused learning
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organization
Local Partnership:
3. Academic Networks :
Typical stakeholders in Academic network
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Innovative teachers and principals;
Universities, research institute, government agencies
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and charitable foundations;
Consultants or trainers brought into a network to
provides members with professional training and advise;
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Evaluators and researchers collecting data relevant to
the process and the evidence of a network’ s impact; and
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Academic associations invited into a network to
further the cause of school improvement.
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Local Partnership:
3. Academic Networks
A school network initiated and run by
a university research institute
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A symbiotic relationship involving
mutually beneficial activities
Provides the schools with state-ofthe-art know-how and acts as
consultants and evaluators
University can serve as headquarters
of educational network designed to
improve schooling for children in atrisk-communities
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Thailand Show Case
1. Key Success Strategies
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e)
Prioritizing child health issues
Putting health issues on the national
agenda
Strengthening
networking/partnership
Legislation & Law enforcement
Knowledge Management
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Thailand Partnership Model
a) Prioritizing Child Health Issues
(proposed by Thailand National Health
Systems Reform Office)
- health status monitoring
- health organizations reengineering
analysis
- legislation analysis
- problems, issues, priorities
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Thailand Partnership Model
b) Putting health issues on the
national agenda (Thailand National
Health Agenda for Cross Ministerial
Cooperation)
1.Drug use /smoking/alcohol control
2.Road safety
3.HIV/Aids
4.Healthy Thailand campaign
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Thailand Partnership Model
c) Strengthening network/partnership
MOE Initiatives
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Realize its own
critical health
situation
Request technical
assistance
MOE partial/full
financial support
MOE Project
Director as leader
Drafting of MOU
MOPH Initiatives
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Recommend health
issues
Offer assistance
Allocate MOPH
budget for health
services
Set health issue as
national agenda
Serve as project
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coordinator
Thailand Partnership Model
d) Legislation and Law Enforcement
Smoking Act
 Alcohol Act
 Child Protection Act
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Thailand Partnership Model
e) Knowledge Management
- improve public access to health
information
- role of Thai Health Organization
- websites and on-line services
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School health program as part of External Q.A. by Office of
National Educational Standards and Quality Assessment
No
1
Standards
Fair
Good
1.48
29.28
69.24
7.83
65.12
27.05
16.44
51.44
32.12
Poor
Student Performance
Desirable ethics and morale
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Critical and creative thinking
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Essential learning skills
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Learning how to search for
Knowledge
4.06
56.16
39.78
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Working skills for career
preparation
1.23
34.60
64.17
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Physical and mental health
0.52
13.89
58.59
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Sports, arts, and music
appreciation
2.22
28.45
69.33
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Thailand Partnership Model
Healthy THAILAND : Best Practice for
National Integrated Project for Public Health
Promotion Strategic Roadmap (2005-2017)
1. IQ & EQ
10. Mental health
2. Exercise
11. Crime & violence
3. Life skills
12. Adequate earnings
4. Happy families
13. Safe environments
5. Life expectancy 14. No risky behaviors
6. Basic health security 15. Safe neighborhoods
7. Safe food
16. Peace & harmony
8. Cigarette
17. Religion and culture
& alcohol ban
9. Accident prevention
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Thailand Partnership Model
The National Drug Abuse Control Program
- National Agenda Approach
- Public Campaign
- Cross ministerial project ( multi factors
integrated management)
- Special financial Support (adequate
budget )
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Active Partnership
Characteristics of Networks
 Links are established among producers to
serve customer needs.
 Links are interactive.
 Networks enjoy a degree of self-management.
 The participants-nodes-networks share a common
purpose.
 Networks come and go.
 Electronic means with agreed codes concerning
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respect.
Large networks which create a sense of belonging,
cohesion and reinforcement of values.
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Active Partnerships
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Networks for Organizational &
Professional Learning purposes
Access to a variety of information
sources
Broader range of learning opportunities
than hierarchical organizations;
Flexible whole & a more stable base to
co-ordinate learning than the anonymity
of the market
Create and access tacit knowledge.
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Active Partnership
Key Elements of Networking
 Systemic
management
 “Nodes”: experts, teams, and
institutions
 “Links”: communications,
interactions and coordination
between nodes
 Performance improvement
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Active Partnership
Risks and Pitfalls of Networking
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A network may inhibit change and become
conservative force in itself.
A network may slowly move away from the
interest of the participating partners.
A network may be formed without a common vision
or purpose, or else have incompatible missions.
Roles are often not clearly identified.
Certain nodes in the network may come to dominate
and disturb a collaborative culture.
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Active Partnership
Developing a Partnership Agreement/
Contract
I. General information
II. Partnership services
III. Fiscal/ resources
IV. Systems
A. Planning and decision-making
B. Communications
C. Oversight
D. Recordkeeping and documentation
V. General administrative elements
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Active Partnership
Assessing Partnership Fulfillment :
Q&A in Health Partnerships
1. What terms are used for partnership work :
joint ventures , collaboration, alliances, intersectoral cooperation, or coalitions. Do both or
all partners understand the same concept?
2 At what levels of partnerships are: networking,
coordination ,cooperation or collaboration
established? It reflects the magnitude of
partnerships efforts.
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Active Partnership
Q&A Health Partnership
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3. Have they shown commitment to or
made some investment in the Partnership ?
4. Do they have a sense
the Partnership process?
of control over
5. How should responsibilities for
identifying and acting upon inequalities in
health status be shared by different
agencies?
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Active Partnership
Q&A Health Partnership
6 . How should collaboration in the
context of the National Health Agenda be
strengthened to ensure that better health
drives major policies?
 7. How should Health Improvement
Programmes be carried out?
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Thank you for your attention
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