SS 16.00-17.30 Special sessions

STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SCHOOL PROGRAMMES FOR PREVENTING TOBACCO SMOKING

The aim of the programme is to provide all professionals involved in planning, design, realization, supervision, and evaluation of school tobacco prevention programmes with instructions for their work, from a public health standpoint. The recommendations contained in the guide are meant to be inserted into existing school curricula.

1. Conferring a suitable rank and place for smoking prevention in teaching curricula. In polish conditions, taking into consideration an intense and sophisticated tobacco advertising and promotion campaigns targeted at children of all ages, the minimum lesson time necessary would be at least five lessons in each of four years (20 lessons total).

2. Adjusting the schedule of antitobacco programmes' realization in accordance with existing conditions. The school programme of smoking prevention can be realized as a block of five lessons or in the form of lessons scattered throughout each school year. Twenty lesson units can be set at will in each of the four years.

3. Realizing the programme on all levels of education, including beginning education. Planning and inserting the 5-lesson yearly set of classes within the framework of four phases of education can guarantee the continuity and effectiveness of the programme: beginning education (0-3 grade), in 4-8 grade of elementary school, the first two years of secondary education and the last years of secondary education.

4. Paying special attention to social conditioning of tobacco smoking in educational programmes, the early health consequences of smoking, and ways to refuse.

5. Including students in the realization of the antitobacco programme, but always under the supervision of the teacher.

6. Care in conscientious preparation of teachers and periodical additional training.

7. Getting support from parents for the smoking prevention programme, but without their active participation in realizing the activities.

8. Development and implementation of comprehensive antitobacco policy in schools.

9. Applying an approach which makes allowance for the specificity of the environment and endeavours of other institutions and organizations.

10. Arranging principles of periodical evaluation of programmes' realization.

Smoke Free Europe Conference Abstracts - 19 SEP 1996

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