According to the Cities for Children strategy „health prevention, healthy eating and medical services for parents and children should be implemented at the highest possible level”.

Moderator: City of Cologne, Germany

Senior moderators: City of Gaziantep (Turkey), City of Athens (Greece), City of Rijeka (Croatia), City of Prešov (Slovakia)

Participating cities: Athens, Budapest (Hungary), Cologne (Germany), Gaziantep (Turkey), Lodz (Poland), Prešov, Riga (Latvia), Rijeka (Croatia), Stuttgart (Germany), Tartu (Estonia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Wroclaw (Poland)

Interested city: Limoges (France)

Topics identified by the Working Group:

• Prevention strategies in the field of addiction (alcohol, drugs, and other)
• The importance of health prevention and promotion during the pre- school age
• The role of nutrition of infants and young children in the promotion of health
• Children with risky behaviour
• Disabled children
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• Media and Health

Meetings:

11 May 2010 in Stuttgart

Protocol of the meeting 11 May in Stuttgart

19 - 20 November 2009 in Gaziantep, Turkey

Presentations 

Athens: The Child with Development Disorder within the Nursery Centres

Athens: Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Relation to Nursery Centres?

Lodz: Network of Healthy Schools and Kindergartens

Rijeka: Inclusion of Disabled Children in Society

Gaziantep Education Department

Gaziantep Health Directorate

Gaziantep Security Directorate

Gaziantep Social Services Department

Gaziantep Health and Social Services Head Department
 

Protocol of the meeting 19 - 20 November in Gaziantep

Program

30 June 2009 in Stuttgart

Protocol of the meeting on 30 June 2009 in Stuttgart

4 - 5 March 2009 in Rijeka

Presentations

Deputy Mayor Rijeka, Prof. Romana Jerković:
Prevention programmes for the reduction of risky behaviour

Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka:
Chronic disease as a risk factor for psychosocial child development

Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka:
School and kindergarten in hospital

Day Centre for Children “Tić” Rijeka: Violence against and among children

Public Health Institute of Primorsko-goranska county:
Health promotion and drug prevention within the public health system

Public Health Institute of Primorsko-Goranska Count:
Obesity is a disease - Food can be a cure

Rijeka: Prevention game "day and night"

Athens: "Shape a child’s character and personality during preschool age"

Cologne: "No nips for nippers" (Foto material) (Good Practice Report)

Best Practice Cologne: "GoJa" (Presentation) and "Movement Educates"

Protocol of topic suggestions for next meeting

Program

24 - 25 September 2008 in Athens

Working meeting in Athens: The meetings focus was set on health prevention and promotion strategies for pre-school children. For information, you may find the meeting agenda here

Protocol of the WG meeting on 24-25 March 2008 in Athens 

Presentations

• City of Lodz: Activities supporting children´s health in Lodz
• City of Rijeka: By food to pre-schoolers´ health
• City of Wroclaw: Network of Schools promoting health

8 - 10 April 2008 in Prešov

Presentation by the WG moderator, Lubica Tomasova, City of Prešov, May 7, 2008

7 May 2008 in Stuttgart

Protocoll of the WG meeting in Stuttgart, May 7, 2008

Good Practice:

City of Rijeka: Good-practice example on pre-school health