#Second week of my internship at CEIDSS, # Open Data Base
This week we have been working to sum up results of last year as well as write short description of projects that have been carried out.
We will soon upload them on Open Database.
It is a website where organisations,health authorities can register their activities, ongoing programmes that got fund from the European Union in order to prevent childhood obesity. It is available for anyone who is interested in having a look at how European countries combat childhood obesity: http://openprogramdb.eu/
Just choose a country, click on search without setting up other filters and you will see all programmes!
CEIDSS has currently five programmes. We were working on MUN-SI and AMEA TEENS. 8 primary schools were enrolled in these projects (1750 children, 900 parents, 68 teachers).
In the context of MUN-SI we listed two activities that occured in the last year. It is called ’Healthy VENCE Snack’ , where VENCE as abbreviation stands for V-arious, E-economic, N-utritious, C-reative, E-qual. One of these activities was about to teach children what healthy snack is and how to prepare it with the aim of reducing overeat/ skipping meals later during the day. Teachers and parents have been involved that is important to build a supportive background when you want to see behavioral changes.
Participating classes were divided into groups during this activity. They all were challenged by a board game. Where yellow marked fields meant houses where they had to answer questions or for instance list 3 healthy snacks. (See figure 1).
At the end of this activity stickers as communication tools where used. Each child has got a sticker that shows three main groups of food (Protein, carbohydrate, minerals and vitamins). They will always remember to get a healthy snack they have to combine two or all these groups. (See figure 2).
Other activity within ’Healthy VENCE snack’ was a song, with a simple lyric that explaines why and how to make a good snack, lyrics is based on currently very popular song ( ‘Agir- Se tempo e dinheiro’ )that you can hear in Portugal wherever you go so children will not have possibility to forget this activity.
To be strong and healthy without illness
The VENCE Snacks I'll have to eat Cereals, proteins, minerals,vitamins
From these three groups I will choose
To always win! ( It was hard to translate from Portuguese, but this is just give an idea, what message lyric had)
Regarding AMEA TEENS programme, we had also two projects to register up on open data base. One is ’Mega Zuma class’ other is ’Healthy cooking workshop’. Mega zumba class was organized in all participating municipalities/counties to make children physically active on an entertaining way. Two inructors were responsible for holding the class and guarantee fun without competition or comparism.
Within this project there was a Facebook challenge announced on national level about what teenagers think healthy is. Click for further details :
https://www.facebook.com/ameateens/?fref=ts
Healthy cooking workshop was a lecture on nutrition. Where chefs of local restaurants and hotels came to schools and explained children the basics of hygiene, sanitation and food safety before, during and after the cooking process. Besides this, children could participate in cooking and prepare their own complete meal : appetizer/soup, main course, dessert. Dietitians of the organisation were all present to cooperate with chefs in order to make the healthiest food out of the available ingredients as well as remind students how to use salt, oil, sugar wisely as children often tend to overdose sugar.
Reflection on my own learning:
When it came to create description of activities and argue why and how they are related to health promotion/health I could use my previously gained knowledge that we were introduced to in module 2 and 4 namely, Nutrition, Physiology and Biochemistry and Educational Theory and Planning, Communication and Qualitative Methods.
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