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22 May 2009 | HBSC International Coordinator invited to present at OECD meeting in Paris
Candace Currie, HBSC International Coordinator, has been invited to present on HBSC at the UNICEF IRC/OECD/European Commission Child Well-being Expert Consultation 25-27 May 2009, at OECD in Paris. The purpose of the consultation is to develop a shared understanding of a set of data that countries should monitor in order to inform policies for children’s well-being.
• Meeting web page
• Candace Currie's presentation [Powepoint 699KB]
• Background paper [Word 56KB]
17 March 2009 | HBSC International Report a WHO/EURO best seller in 2008
The HBSC International Report ranked second in the top 50 most popular products downloaded from the WHO/EURO website in 2008. Inequalities in young people's health: HBSC international report from the 2005/2006 Survey has been downloaded 7799 times since its online publication in June 2008. The report also ranks third over all for WHO/EURO hard copy sales and downloads combined.
18 February 2009 | Announcing the WHO HBSC Forum 2009
The HBSC network is working with WHO and others to develop the 2009 WHO HBSC Forum. The theme of the 2009 WHO/HBSC Forum is "socio-environmentally determined health inequities among children and adolescents". The findings will feed into the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health to be held in Italy in the Spring of 2010. The Fifth Ministerial Conference builds on the Fourth Ministerial Conference, held in 2004, dedicated to "The Future for our Children". In 2004, WHO Europe Member States made a commitment to implementing national level actions to ensure a better future for the children of the WHO European Region by means of a Children's environment and health action plan for Europe (CEHAPE) and a Conference Declaration. 'The Forum will take place in Siena, Italy in October 2009'.
Further details will be posted shortly.
28 November 2008 | WHO/HBSC 2007 Forum Report now available online
The report from the 2007 WHO/HBSC Forum, Social cohesion for mental well-being among adolescents, is published and can be downloaded from the WHO website:
The WHO/HBSC Forum 2007 took place in Viareggio, Italy in October 2007. The process engaged intersectoral policy-makers, researchers and programme managers from 17 Member States in considering the following issues:
- Translating research into policies and action
- Intersectoral action
- Addressing health inequities
- Involving young people.
This was the second Forum in the series, which is a partnership initiative between HBSC and WHO. They are hosted by the Tuscany Region and the A. Meyer University Children's Hospital of Florence (Italy). The goal of the WHO/HBSC Forum series is to bring policy-makers, practitioners and researchers together to compare and learn from experiences in addressing the socioeconomic determinants of adolescent health.
The 2006 Forum focussed on eating habits and physical activity – the report is also available on the WHO website:
15 October 2008 | HBSC results presented at OECD Health Data Correspondents Meeting
Professor Candace Currie, HBSC International Coordinator, was invited to give a presentation on 'HBSC: scope, approach and selected results', at the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development) Health Data Correspondents Meeting 9-10 October 2008 in Paris. She addressed a session focussed on OECD's approach to improve indicators of children's health and health services. There were approximately 60-70 persons, including representatives from each of OECD's 30 Member Countries who contribute information to the Health Database.
17 June 2008 | HBSC International Coordinator awarded OBE
Professor Candace Currie at the University of Edinburgh and HBSC International Coordinator has been awarded an OBE in Queen's Birthday Honours.
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17 June 2008 | New HBSC International Report published online
A new international report1 from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children: WHO Collaborative Cross-National Study: ‘Inequalities in young People’s Health’ is published today.
This international report from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) World Health Organization collaborative cross-national study is the most comprehensive to date. It presents the key findings on patterns of health among young people in 41 countries and regions across Europe and North America. The document presents a status report on health, health-related behaviour and the social contexts of young people’s health in 2005/2006 and provides the latest evidence from a unique cross-national study on the well-being of young people in industrialized nations. It is the fourth in a series of international reports from the HBSC study published by the WHO Regional Office for Europe in the “Health policy for children and adolescents” (HEPCA) series. In addition to presenting key statistics on young people’s health, this report has a special focus on health inequalities. It presents data on gender, age and geographic and socioeconomic dimensions of health differentials. The aim of the report is to highlight where inequalities exist in aspects of young people’s health and well-being in order to inform and influence policy and practice and to contribute to health improvement for all young people.
The full report is available to download from the WHO website:
1 Currie C et al., eds. Inequalities in young people's health: HBSC international report from the 2005/2006 Survey. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2008 (Health Policy for Children and Adolescents, No. 5)
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