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Strengthening transversal competences of low-educated employees concerning their health choices in the context of the changing labour market (LEECH)
Project/agreement No.
2008-3466/001-001
Project funding
European Commission funding
Project manager
Project realization
01.01.2008. - 31.12.2011.
Aim
The general objectives of the training are
1. to give the target group a deeper insight of the characteristics of low educated employees (LEE) and differences between LEE and general working population
2. to teach the participants specific health education methods for working with this particular group of workers
3. to train the participants to be able to further transfer their newly acquired knowledge to other people interested in health education and health promotion for LEE
1. to give the target group a deeper insight of the characteristics of low educated employees (LEE) and differences between LEE and general working population
2. to teach the participants specific health education methods for working with this particular group of workers
3. to train the participants to be able to further transfer their newly acquired knowledge to other people interested in health education and health promotion for LEE
Description
International research and implementation project carried out simultaneously in four EU Member States: Spain (ES), Latvia (LV), Poland (PL) and Slovenia (SI) during the period of December 2008 – February 2011 within the Grundtvig sub-programme, the Life Long Learning Programme.
Its coordinator was the National Centre for Health Promotion at Work of Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine (Poland) and the other partners were:
- Valencian Institute of Care of Disabled People (Spain) University Medical Centre Clinical Institute of Occupational, Traffic and Sports Medicine (Slovenia), Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health of Riga Stradins University (Latvia)
Project activities
- Identification of specific ways of perception of health and its determinants, level of knowledge and beliefs of low educated employees regarding their personal healthy behaviours and health choices
- Summary of existing and formulation of further recommendations on effective methods of health education for LEE (especially in terms of content, appropriate strategies and methods of education) in EU and partner countries
- Analysis of characteristics of educational systems available in each partner country for working adults (i.e. existing mechanisms, institutions and forms of possible trainings) that could be used to implement health education among LEE
- Preparation of project LEECH manual (monograph) for health educators on effective ways stimulating LEE to implement healthy lifestyles
- Training of health educators in four partner countries (more than 120 persons) in the field of appropriate strategies for health education and health promotion directed to low educated workers and ways of transferring the competences to groups of people interested in this topic
- Dissemination and exploitation of the project results among representatives of the target group
