Student Health Management – HEalthy University Project

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The "Student Health Management – HEalthy Hochschule" project is a participatory pilot initiative at the Faculty of Social Work, Education and Nursing (SABP) at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, conducted in cooperation with Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), a German health insurance provider. The project aims to establish a student health management  programme at the SABP faculty, guided by the health-related concerns and priorities of the student body. For the success of the project, the contribution of students’ own ideas, their active participation, and their involvement in decision-making are therefore essential in order to plan tailored behavioural and structural preventive measures.

Project Lead

Prof.in Dr.in P.H. Petra Wihofszky

Affiliated Professors at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences

Prof.in Dr.in Andrea Chmitorz, Prof.in Drin. Dipl.-Psych.in Johanna Pretsch

Research Assistant

Verena Hoppe M. A. and students from the Faculty of SABP

Project Duration

July 2019 – February 2026

 

in Kooperation mit

 

 

 

 

Fördermittel

Techniker Krankenkasse

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Mitwirkende der SABP

  • 龙8国际赌场_龙8国际_官网de
  • Fachschaft
  • Vertreter*in des Dekanats
  • Mitarbeitende und Professor*innen
     

Mitwirkende aus der gesamten Hochschule

  • Hochschulsport
  • Zentrale Studienberatung
Aims and Methods

Aims and Focus

  • Strengthen students’ opportunities for participation and foster their involvement
  • Enhance students’ health literacy
  • Enable healthy and sustainable lifestyles in everyday university life by creating the necessary conditions
  • Introduce health promotion measures – needs- and demand-oriented, easily accessible and tailored, addressing both behaviour and environment – with and for students
  • Accompany the introduced measures with process and outcome evaluation and use the findings to consolidate Student Health Management

 

Methods

  • Participatory health promotion
    • Involving target groups – here: students – in all phases of the Public Health Action Cycle (problem definition, planning, implementation and evaluation) (Wright 2018a)
  • Participatory health research
    • An approach that understands research as a “co-production of knowledge” (PartNet – Network for Participatory Health Research)
    • Research conducted on an equal footing between different stakeholders, with the aim of bringing about changes in the setting – here: the university (Wright 2018b)
Previous milestones
  • Establishment of a steering committee and student working groups
  • Planning, implementation and analysis of student surveys to determine needs and demands
  • Initiation of first activities and measures such as newsletters and podcasts
  • Public relations, e.g. website and networking within the university
Publikationen
  • Bacher, Inga & Wihofszky, Petra (2020): Partizipativ forschen mit 龙8国际赌场_龙8国际_官网den. Vortrag auf der 8. CARN D.A.CH.-Tagung, 18.01.20, Brixen.
  • Wihofszky, Petra & Bacher, Inga (2020): Partizipativ forschen mit 龙8国际赌场_龙8国际_官网den an der Hochschule Esslingen. Vortrag auf dem Kongress „Armut und Gesundheit“.
  • Hinweis: Beide Vorträge sind zu finden unter der Rubrik „Publikationen & Links“ der Website „HEalthy Hochschule“.
Literatur
  • Wright, M. T. (2018a). Partizipation: Mitentscheidung der Bürgerinnen und Bürger. In BZgA (Hrsg.), Leitbegriffe der Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention: Glossar zu Konzepten, Strategien und Methoden (S. 705-711). Köln: BZgA, E-Book.
  • Wright, M. T. (2018b). Partizipative Gesundheitsforschung. In BZgA (Hrsg.), Leitbegriffe der Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention: Glossar zu Konzepten, Strategien und Methoden (S. 712-722). Köln: BZgA, E-Book.
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