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| OEFI Smoking
Prevention Program in Kindergartens |
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The development of the Smoking Prevention
Program in Kindergartens was started in 1993 by the National
Institute for Health Promotion and the Smoking or Health Hungarian
Foundation.
The model experiment took place in 1994, then the dissemination
was started on a national level, the tools of the Program have
reached more than 900 kindergartens (until 2004).
According to the feedbacks received from kindergarten teachers,
the contact with this age group was successful, and the impact
survey made with the children (can be downloaded from our webpage)
also shows that the aims were objectives and they were achieved
in accordance with the original intention.
The aim of the Program is primarily to protect the health of
kindergarten age children, within this:
· To understand and accept the meaning of the cherry
symbol.
· To accommodate age-specific information.
· To develop a conscious and active behavior against
the compulsion of passive smoking.
· To develop the correct set of values, health behavior
and attitudes.
The SMOKING OR HEALTH complementary program for kindergartens
undertakes a special prevention task during this early period
of life. The objective is to protect the health of kindergarten
age children by preventing smoking initiation and the development
of this harmful addiction.
The Program helps children not to just suffer from passive smoking,
but to be able to take action against it.
It clarifies the existing concepts and supplements them with
new ones by putting them into a different context. It helps
parents to protect the growing up generation from destructive
behaviors.
It takes into account the peculiar laws of growing up and that
the environmental impacts applied both spontaneously and methodically
will determine the developing personality of the children, with
special attention to the fact that the role of the personal
and material environment surrounding the child is a decisive
factor.
The Program, which suits the age characteristics of 5-7-year
old children, at the same time is a "vehicle" between
the children, the kindergarten teacher, the district nurse and
the parents.
There is also international interest for the Hungarian Smoking
Prevention Program in Kindergartens that can be regarded as
a unique program.
In the World Conference on Smoking or Health held in Helsinki
in the summer of 2003, the general director of the World Health
Organization (WHO), Mr. Lee Jong in his opening speech emphasized
that smoking prevention should be started as early as possible,
as early as in the kindergarten.
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Organization
Name:
National Institute for Health Promotion,
Address:
1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 82.
Phone: 06 1 428 8272
Fax: 06 1 428 8273
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webpage: www.oefi.hu |
Professional
contact
Name:
Demjén Tibor section manager, smoking Prevention
and Cessation Assistance Group
Address:
1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 82.
Phone: 06 1 301 7603
Fax: 06 1 3125 020
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