SHE mapping report Lessons learnt from policies and practices of SHE member countries

Abstract

The Schools for Health in Europe Network Foundation mapping (SHE mapping) survey is a cross-national study to map the level of implementation of health promotion in schools of the SHE member countries and how this implementation is carried out. SHE mapping collected international data on: the integration of the national Health Promoting School (HPS) policy into other national policies; how national policies frame school practices in the whole school approach of HPS; how national policies contribute to a healthy physical environment in the school setting; the contributions of national policies to a school’s social environment, favourable to health promotion; the guidelines, tools and resources for a school to become a HPS; the national process of monitoring / evaluation of HPS; health topics included in the national HPS policy; health promoting school label; sources of funding for national HPS; main expectations of the SHE national coordinators for their national HPS scheme; number of HPS in SHE member countries; HPS facilities; how inclusion of health promotion is done in the school curriculum; health topics worked regularly in HPS; learning methods / strategies in HPS; practices and suggestions for the SHE School Manual and its two accompanying tools; facilitating factors and barriers faced by HPS in the SHE member countries. Data were collected using the Survey Monkey. All SHE national and regional coordinators from the 37 SHE member countries were invited to complete a questionnaire, upon completion of a statement of informed consent. Data were received from 75.7% of countries, but after removal of the incomplete questionnaires and two SHE regional coordinators who responded in duplicate for their country, because it was not possible to gather information from regions as there were only three regional coordinators who answered, 64.9% of countries were analysed.