Building Strategic Policy for Health

Workers in SEA to improve health in

ASEAN
March 27, 2016
Bandung, West Java

Ith Vuthy, MSc. MA.

SEAMOLEC Deputy Director

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 Cambodian Policies and Strategies

School Health Department of Ministry of

Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) is an apex
body to coordinate all kind of school health
programs in Cambodia.

Vertical structure are:

National level (School Health Department)
Provincial level (School Health Committee)
District level (School Health Committee)
School level (School Health Committee)
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 Mission
1. To manage and develop health education
programs and sanitation in schools
2. To manage the first aid corner in schools
3. To do health check up with the assistance of
health professionals
4. To monitor, to research and to develop
intervention measures when outbreak of
diseases in schools
5. To report all intervention achievements to
Minister
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 How school health is
implemented at school levels?
1. Integrate into National Curriculum
2. Integration into relevant teaching subjects
3. Integrate into regular school schedule
(Physical and Health education, Home
Economic...)
4. As part of the Local Life Skill Programs
(every Thursday)
5. Daily practice at school
6. Schedule of health check up and deworming
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Current policies and strategies (1)
Sub-decree 25, 1992
Sub-decree 84, 1998
Policy of de-worming of MoH, 2004 (2014?)
Policy of school health, 2006
Life skill education policy, 2006
Policy of child friendly school, 2007
HIV/AIDS work place policy, 2007
Guidelines of prohibition of tobacco in work
place and school, 2000
Guidelines of flu prevention in school, 2008
Guidelines of prohibition of alcohol in school
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premises, 2011
Current policies and strategies (2)
Guidelines of process de-worming for all
students 2013
Guidelines of strengthening security, safety,
and hygiene in school, 2013
Guidelines of healthy and safety food for
food sellers in school, 2013
Guidelines for celebration of global hand
washing day in school, 2013
Guidelines of hygienic measure in school for
school meal programme, 2014
National strategic plan of EFA 2003-2015
Education strategic plan 2014-2018 6
 School health policy
health, nutrition
Policy 1: Basic healthcare services:
Health check up, First aid
Vaccination, De-worming, Vitamin
Counseling, school discipline
School breakfast, Oral
Policy 2: Health education services:
Integration HE topics into national curricula
Mainstream HE into existing events/training
Capacity development for SH staff
Training pre and in service teachers
Encourage health promoting school and M&E 7
Policy 3: Learning environment, hygiene and
sanitation facilities:
Improve Hygiene and sanitation in school (latrine
and water supplies, washing hand station)
Improve School environment (garden, trees)
Wastes management
Physical education
Policy 4: Stakeholder participation:
Cooperation with line Ministries
Link response with all sub-national levels
Establishment school health committee
Public private partnership and PTA
Harmonization and align school plan into
community development plan 8
Current school health
Programs

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 Physical Education
First Aid
School
Feeding
De-worming,
Vaccination,.. Comprehensive
Sexuality
Education

Water and
Sanitation
Communicable
Disease
Oral Health Prevention

Health Check
Non Communicable
Up
Disease Preventions
STH Education
Current school health programme (1)
No Programs Milestones
1 De-worming > 90% of students and
pre-service teachers
2 School meals 392,077 students in 1,349
(school breakfast) schools (20%) in 12
provinces
3 First aid kits 16% of primary schools in
24 provinces
4 Life skill on 25% of primary and
comprehensive secondary schools (7
sexuality education provinces)
(new curricula) 11
Current school health programme (2)
No Programs Milestones
5 Health check For all pre-service teachers of
up all teacher training center,
oversee students, and some
primary schools
6 Malaria 16 provinces (zone 1 and 2 of
education malaria transmission)
7 STH education About 20% of all primary
schools in Cambodia
8 Hygiene and Nearly 90% of primary schools
first aid in Cambodia
education 12
Current school health programme (3)
No Programs Milestones
9 Eye health All primary schools in 5
education provinces (30% of all
primary schools)
10 Fit for school 10 pilot schools (7,500
students in 5 provinces)
11 Health promoting 9 schools in Phnom Penh
and Healthy city
12 Safety and healthy 6 primary schools in
food, and Market Phnom Penh (7,755
tour students and 1,480
parents participated) 13
 Current school health programme (4)
10.New co-curricula on health
education have been introduced to
target schools:
. Eye health education,
. STH education,
. LSE-CSE (4 curricula)
. Safety and healthy food
. Malaria education (3 curricula)
. Dengue education manual
. First aid education manual,
. Hygiene and sanitation manual, 14
 School health partners (1)
1. Ministry of Health
2. Ministry of Rural Development
3. National AIDS Authority
4. National Combating Drug Authority
5. UN agencies: UNFPA, UNESCO, WHO,
WFP, GFATM, WB, UNICEF,
6. NGOs: HKI, CWW/Johnson & Johnson,
Fhi360 (USAID), Fred Hollow Foundation,
Brien Holden, RHAC, OneWorld, Inthanou,
URC, One to One, WVC, BORDA, RWC
7. Bi-lateral: GIZ, KOICA, Colgate,
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 School health partners (2)
No Program Partner
1 School meals WFP
2 Life skill on comprehensive UNFPA, GF,
sexuality education UNICEF, RHAC,
UNESCO,
OneWorld, Intha
3 Eye health education and FHF, BH,
eye screening KOICA
4 Soil-transmitted helminthes CWW,
education JJ, HKI, Fhi36016
 School health partners (3)
No Program Partner
5 Malaria education GF, URC,
PFD
6 Fit for school (hygiene and GIZ, WVC,
sanitation) UNICEF
BORDA
7 Safety and healthy food, WHO, NB
hygiene and sanitation (PB)
education
8 Health check up and first aid NB (PB),
WB, KOICA17
 School health partners (4)
No Program Partner
9 Oral health Colgate, One
to One
10 De-worming JJ, MoH
11 Vitamin A and Vaccination MoH
12 Sanitation and Hygiene UNICEF, NB,
facilities MoRD,
BORDA, RWC,
KOICA
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 Strategic Goals
1. Establishment of a Regional Occupational
Health Network
(bringing together all the stake-holders:
national government, NGOs, academia,
industries and UN agencies)
1. Promotion the use of a Health Risk Paradigm
of Risk Assessment and Management;
2. Capacity Building

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 ASEAN Leaders Agreement
Event though the ASEAN Community is
already integrated but the implementation of
free job market still limited.
Should only the commitment from the
leaders but implementers should make more
easy and flexible.

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Thank You