Urbani School Health Kit

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Urbani School Health Kit

• Teachers Workshop

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• Teachers Workshop

800 830 Registration 830 930
Opening/Introduction of Participants
About the Urbani School Health Kit project 930
1000 Break 1000 1030 Use of the Urbani
School Health Kit in the
Classroom 1030 1100 Monitoring and
Evaluation 1100 1200 Workshop 1 Lesson
Planning Workshop 2 Monitoring
Evaluation 1200 100 Lunch 100 400
Presentation of Workshop Outputs 400 430
Closing
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Urbani School Health Kit
Who? What? Why? Where? When?
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About the Urbani School Health Kit

• Features of the Urbani School Health Kit
• Integrating the use of the Urbani School Health
  Kit in the Classroom
• Workshop 1
• Monitoring the use of the Urbani School Health
  Kit
• Workshop 2

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Why Urbani?

• Dr. Carlo Urbani (1956-2003)?
• an expert on school-based helminth control
• developed a concept that schools should be
  provided with a kit containing tools for teachers
  who educate children about preventing health
  problems like worm infections
• the first WHO staff to identify SARS and died of
  it in Viet Nam

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What is the Urbani School Health Kit?

• An integrated package of materials that support
  health education and health promotion in the
  school setting, particularly among 5-9 and 10-12
  year-old pupils

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What are features of the Urbani School Health Kit?

• Visibility
• Usability
• Accessibility
• Durability
• Adaptability

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What is in the Kit?

• Urbani School Health Kit Box
• Teachers Guide
• Teachers Resource Books (8 themes)?
• Games (game rules, floor mats, dice, ball)?
• Posters
• Other teaching aids (flashcards, models of teeth,
  toothbrushes, CD-ROM with videos)?

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Seven themes
TOPICS Health Promotion
Personal hygiene A Clean and Healthy Me
Environmental health A Clean Environment and Healthy Me
Intestinal parasitism A Lively and Healthy Me A Schistosomiasis-free Me
Nutrition A Strong and Healthy Me
Oral care A Smiling and Healthy Me
Tobacco control A Tobacco-free and Healthy me
Malaria prevention A Malaria-free Me
Dengue prevention A Dengue-free Me
Filariasis prevention A Filariasis-free Me
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The Urbani Box
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The Urbani School Health Kit Contents
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Urbani School Health Kit Poster
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The Urbani School Health Kit Poster
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Implementation highlights

• Partners
• World Health Organization
• UP Open University
• Department of Health
• Department of Education
• AusAid
• Pilot Implementation in Manila July 2006
• Davao August to November 2007
• Palawan September to November2007
• Sultan Kudarat July to October 2008
• Sarangani province July to October 2008
• Butuan April to October 2009
• Zamboanga April to October 2009

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Urbani School Health Kit

• Integrating the Kit into the school curriculum

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Integrating into the school curriculum

• Check school childrens target competencies per
  grade level
• Determine points where the Urbani School Health
  Kit might be useful
• Determine whether the activities/lessons in the
  Kit can be INTEGRATED into the planned lessons
  or whether these can be used as ENHANCEMENT
• Remember that the teacher has CONTROL over how
  the Kit will be used.

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Urbani School Health Kit

• About the health campaigns

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A Clean and Healthy Me

• Personal hygiene helps build a healthy body
• Maintaining personal hygiene involves
• Proper hand washing
• Daily bathing
• Keeping hair clean and neat
• Wearing clean clothes
• Brushing teeth
• Cutting long fingernails
• Covering mouth and nose when sneezing or coughing
• Not spitting in public places
• Using own drinking cup and utensils
• Maintaining personal hygiene is a responsibility
  I take on as I grow older

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A Clean Environment and Healthy Me

• A clean and healthy environment has
• Safe food and water supply
• Proper waste disposal
• Clean air
• No pests such as flies, cockroaches, and
  mosquitoes
• Maintaining a clean environment helps keep
  diseases away and fosters growth and development
  of children
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A Clean Environment and Healthy Me

• Many disease-causing germs can be found in dirty
  environments
• Disease-causing germs enter the body via
  different routes (a) through the mouth, (b)
  through the skin
• Ways of keeping the environment clean and healthy
  include
• Ensuring safe food and water supply
• Properly disposing of waste
• Removing breeding places of disease causing
  mosquitoes
• Ensuring adequate ventilation

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A Lively and Healthy Me

• Worms are parasites that feed on nutrients in the
  human bowels
• Worm infections are transmitted through the mouth
  and through skin contact with contaminated soil
• Worms in the body cause abdominal pain, loss of
  nutrients, slow growth and development, and even
  death
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A Lively and Healthy Me

• Worm infections can be prevented by improving
  personal hygiene, practicing proper hand washing,
  cooking meat thoroughly, keeping food and water
  supplies clean, and keeping toilets clean.
• Worm infections can be easily treated by
  deworming drugs.

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A Strong and Healthy Me

• Food is important for growth, energy and proper
  functioning of the body
• The three major food groups are the sources of
  the essential nutrients needed by the body
  carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals
• Fruits and vegetables, rice and whole grain
  products, and fish/meat products are good for the
  body if taken in appropriate amounts
• Eating too much sweets, fats and salty foods is
  bad for the body
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A Strong and Healthy Me

• Good nutrition means eating a variety of food at
  the right amount
• Maintaining a normal weight is indicative of good
  nutrition
• It is important to balance food intake and
  physical activity
• Diet and physical activity today affect future
  health

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A Smiling and Healthy Me

• Children with healty teeth and gums have more
  reason to smile
• Avoiding sweets and proper brushing of teeth
  keeps dental caries away
• Dental problems start with dental plaque that
  could lead to gum inflammation and dental decay
  and eventually loss of teeth
• MORE gtgt

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A Smiling and Healthy Me

• Poor oral health (such as bad breath and loss of
  teet) can affect ones nutrition and social
  interactions
• Proper brushing of teeth is essential to healthy
  gums and teeth
• Choosing what foods to eat and what foods to
  avoid is important in keeping gums and teeth
  healthy
• If possible, visit the dentist at least twice a
  year

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A Tobacco-free and Healthy Me

• Tobacco use is bad for health
• Passive smoking can cause disease
• Children should tell adults who smoke in their
  presence that smoking is bad for health
• Resist peer pressure to smoke cigarettes
• Contrary to what you see in movies, music videos,
  magazines and television, smoking does not make
  you more athletic, attractive or popular.

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A Malaria- and Dengue-free Me

• The mosquito is a potentially harmful insect
  since it may carry organisms that cause malaria
  and dengue in humans.
• Protecting oneself form mosquito bites includes
  wearing proper clotes, use of mosquito nets or
  mosquito repellants
• MORE gtgt

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A Malaria- and Dengue-free Me

• Malaria and dengue can be stopped by
• Disposing of waste properly
• Emptying water pots and other potential mosquito
  breeding sites
• Covering water containers
• Cleaning streams and sewers

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Urbani School Health Kit

• Workshop on how to use the Kit

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Ideas on how to use the Urbani School Health Kit

• Grades 1 and 2
• Intestinal Parasitism
• Pictures of healthy and malnourished child
• Introduction worms in the body
• Lecture what are worm infections how worms
  enter the body (using pictures)?
• Skills washing hands
• Lecture effect on growth and development why
  infections should be controlled how to prevent
  infections
• Evaluation Games (QA)?
• Enrichment Tour of school canteen

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Ideas on how to use the Urbani School Health Kit

• Grade 3
• Nutrition
• Motivation Flash cards, pictures, games
• Discussion
• 3 basic food groups (pictures or objects)?
• Importance of food groups
• Right amount balanced diet on time
• Avoid illness heart disease, overweight, tooth
  decay, high blood pressure, hyperactivity
• Evaluation
• Games
• Paper and pencil test

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Ideas on how to use the Urbani School Health Kit

• Grade 3
• Oral hygiene
• Topic Tongue as a sense organ (comment also
  discuss oral cavity and proper brushing)?
• Singing Its our science time
• Sharing period
• Science/Health news
• Inspection
• Drill QA
• Discussion diseases of the tongue
• Demonstration use teeth models
• Evaluation True or false, involve all students

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Ideas on how to use the Urbani School Health Kit

• Grade 3
• Clean environment
• Motivation Ball game
• Discussion
• Activity Form groups, describe a healthy
  environment (home, community, etc.), display
  childrens work (posters, strips of paper,
  rhymes)?
• Evaluation Reporting of output

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Ideas on how to use the Urbani School Health Kit

• Grade 4
• Diseases/disorders of digestive system
• Motivation Ball, pictures
• Activity Groupings 1 picture per group
  arrange pictures in correct sequence (how
  parasites enter the body)?
• Discussion
• Evaluation Activity mats and ball

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Ideas on how to use the Urbani School Health Kit

• Grade 5
• Tobacco ailments of respiratory system
• Activities Floor mats (blue and green), posters
  on tobacco, jingle saying no to tobacco, sharing,
  health inspection, science news (related to
  respiratory system city ordinances/national
  law) drills, graphic organizing
• Value infusion say no to tobacco because it is
  bad for your health
• Discussion
• What comes to your mind when you hear the word
  tobacco?
• What is the message of tobacco advertisements?
  Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.
• Evaluation
• Ailments
• Assignment
• Interview smokers on what could be the bad
  effects of tobacco
• Computer research respiratory system illnesses

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Ideas on how to use the Urbani School Health Kit

• Grade 5
• Body systems Personal hygiene
• Key message Practice good personal hygiene
• Discussion Changes in the body related to
  puberty occuring from 10 to 16 years (Grade 5 10
  to 13 years) show pictures of well groomed and
  not-well groomed children discuss factors
  affecting grooming motivate
• Activity Role-playing on personal hygiene good
  action and bad action film showing on personal
  hygiene
• Enrichment Checklist on personal hygiene
• Skills Practices

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Ideas on how to use the Urbani School Health Kit

• Grade 6
• Keeping healthy basic food groups
• Objectives Describe right kind and amount of
  food explain importance of having a balanced
  diet
• Discussion picture of children playing (which
  children will get easily tired?) basic food
  groups food pyramid puzzle malnutrition
• Enrichment activity Investigative reporting BMI
  computation (by children)

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Urbani School Health Kit

• Monitoring and Evaluation activities

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Monitoring and evaluation

• Self evaluation
• See form in the Teachers Guide
• Pre-test and post-test
• Copies to be provided per topic and for each
  age-group
• Observation
• One (1) class activity / exhibit / demo teaching
  per teacher
• At least one (1) visit per school
• Interview
• Inventory check durability check

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Contact Numbers

• Sheila Bonito (UP Open University)
  sbonito_at_upou.edu.ph
• Erlinda Manarin (UP Open University)
  lindamanarin_at_yahoo.com
• Tel. No. - [phone]
• Fax No. [phone]

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Thank you!