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Area of Expertise Youth Health Nurse 2nd Edition [2026]

This document presents the updated Area of Expertise for the Youth Health Nurse, highlighting key competencies such as health promotion, collaboration, and evidence-based practice in modern youth health care. It emphasizes the nurse’s role in preventive care, cross-sector collaboration, and leadership in improving the quality and effectiveness of services for children and families.

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Building Communicative Spaces with Children in Paediatric Obesity Care and
Research [2025]

The thesis examines how children’s perspectives can be integrated into pediatric obesity care and research to improve health services and policies. It emphasizes participatory approaches that involve children as active partners in shaping care and understanding their experiences, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. See book on Children’s Voices.

Thesis: Siegnella Concincion

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Early Detection of Parenting and Developmental Problems in Young Children: a Structured Dialogue with Parents [2016]

The study concludes that the SPARK structured dialogue with parents is a feasible and reliable tool for use in preventive child health care, helping professionals identify risks and care needs related to parenting and early child development in toddlers. It demonstrates that structured conversations with parents improve early detection of potential problems, enabling more timely and targeted support for families and young children.

Thesis: Ingrid Staal

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Governments across Europe and Central Asia adopt new WHO strategy to give every child a healthy start in life [2025]

A healthy start for a healthy life: a strategy for child and adolescent health and well-being in the WHO European Region 2026–2030 — developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office.

Background: The strategy was adopted during the session of the Regional Committee for Europe and is intended to address the health and social challenges faced by children and adolescents in the Region’s 53 Member States. It emphasizes that the health of children and adolescents must once again be placed on political agendas.

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Guidance on policy and strategic actions
to protect and promote mental health
and well-being across government sectors WHO [2025]

Mental health and well-being are vital to individual and societal health, and essential for sustainable development.

They are shaped by structural and social determinants like poverty, discrimination, and violence: factors that
extend beyond the health sector. Global crises such as climate change, conflict, and COVID-19 have further
intensified these pressures.

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Quality standards for child and youth mental health services (WHO) [2025]

The quality standards for child and youth mental health services were developed in response to requests from the WHO pan-European Mental Health Coalition and WHO Member States for a standardised approach to quality assessment, measurement and improvement for child and youth community/outpatient mental health care across the WHO European Region.

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Legal Considerations for Health Emergency Measures in Schools and Education (2024)

Interventions should be designed to support robust and proportionate public health practice that respects human rights, and might be a useful resource should a next pandemic be on a horizon.

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A Focus on Adolescent Social Contexts (HBSC WHO Europe) [2024]

This report focuses on the social context of adolescents’ lives, using the unique HBSC evidence on adolescents aged 11, 13 and 15 years across 44 countries and regions in Europe, Central Asia and Canada. It describes the status of adolescent family and peer relationships and school experiences, the role of gender, age and social inequality, and changes in adolescents’ social context over time.

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The Importance of Social Support for Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic (HBSC WHO Europe) [2023]

School closures across Europe have exacerbated pre-existing health issues. Children from socially disadvantaged families are the most affected.

Support systems ranking as follows: family, teachers, peers. They play a significant role in mitigating the consequences of the pandemic.

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Criteria for Good Practice in Health Promotion Addressing Social Determinants

The Criteria for Good Practice in Health Promotion Addressing Social Determinants offer a specialised framework for planning and implementing health promotion interventions. The special feature
of these criteria is their focus on interventions which actively contribute to improving equity in health.

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Climate, Pollution, and Children's Health | NEJM

Based on a Review Article by Drs. Frederica Perera and Kari Nadeau, this instructional video focuses on five key ways in which fossil fuels, air pollution, and climate change are creating a long-lasting negative impact on infant and children’s health.

The health care sector plays an important role in taking measures for children and pregnant persons affected by these changes.

The health care sector also spreads awareness by engageing in advocacy to improve health and equity.

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The Preventive Child and Youth Healthcare Service (CYH) in the Netherlands: The State of the Art and Challenges Ahead

Yvonne T. M. Vanneste, Caren I. Lanting, Symone B. Detmar

The article introduces the basic and special high quality preventive health care service free of charge for all children under 18 years provided by the CYH.
The impact is estimated as EUR 1/ EUR 11 return of investment. The article shows CYH social and environmental challenges.

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Assessing and Supporting Adolescents’ Capacity for Autonomous Decision-Making in Health-Care Settings.
A Tool for Health-Care Providers, WHO (2021)

The right to participate is a fundamental right stated in the International Convention of the Rights of the Child. Therefore, all adolescents should be able to participate and
freely express their views on any decisions regarding their health, no matter their decision-making capacity.

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Recent WHO Guideline on School Health
Services (SHS) – (2021)

WHO strongly recommends comprehensive SHS with adequate resources.

The evidence proves that – if school health services are implemented well – they will have
lasting benefits for students in terms of effectiveness and acceptability.

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Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA)
WHO (2018)

Final report on the description of the various models of school health services and adolescent health services, including quality assessments and costs.

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European Framework for Quality Standards in School Health Services and Competences for School Health Professionals (2014)

Published in cooperation with EUSUHM (2014)

This European framework for quality standards in school health services and competences for school health professionals, developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, aims to support the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region to develop and sustain school health services as part of their national health systems

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School Nurses at Public Schools and Multidisciplinary Intervention for Overweighted Children and Adolescents (2021)

The current documentation was presented during the 2nd EUSUHM’s Webinar on Thursday, the 23rd of September.

School Nurses at Public Schools in the State of Brandenburg, Germany. An Effective Resource for School Children’s Health with Dr. Johann Böhmann and Dr. Gabriele Ellsäßer.

Multidisciplinary intervention for children and adolescents with overweight and obesity and their families with Polonca Truden Dobrin and Bernarda Vogrin.

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The Effect of Covid-19 on the Mental Health of Adolescents (2021)

The current documentation was presented during the 1st EUSUHM’s Webinar (2021)

Prof. Inez Myin-Germeys
Center voor Contextuele Psychiatrie, KU Leuven, Belgium

EUSUHM 29-04-2021

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Covid-19 and Student Health: A Global Perspective (2021)

The current documentation was presented during the 1st EUSUHM’s Webinar (2021)

Erin d. Maughan PhD, Rn, PhNA-BC, FNASN, FANN
Global School Nurse Research Consortium
Center for School Health Innovation & Quality

Valentina Baltag, MD.
WHO

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School Nurses (SN) at Public Schools in Brandenburg/Germany (2021)

An Effective Resource for School Children’s Health. Analysis of Activities and Networking.
Böhmann J, Ellsäßer G (ed.). Delmenhorster Institut für Gesundheitsförderung (DIG), Delmenhorst 2021

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UN Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery (2020)

Leveraging the Power of Science
for a More Equitable, Resilient and Sustainable Future, November 2020

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Psychosocial Support for Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing (ME-WE) Among Adolescent Young Carers in Europe

The ME-WE Project partners are planning psychosocial interventions aimed to mitigate the risk factor of being an adolescent young carer, by empowering the young with improved resilience and enhanced social support.

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Mission Statement of a Modern Public Health Child and Youth Service (PHCYS) in Germany (2020)

Statement of the PHCYS Expert Committee of the German Federal Association of the Public Health Service (PHS), 2020

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Medical Care for School Children (2017)

Ein gut angenommenes niederschwelliges Angebot des schulischen Supportsystems, Praxisstudie am WIKU BRG Sandgasse, November 2017

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WHO Infographics to promote the Global Standards for Quality Health Care Services for Adolescents

WHO has developed 4 infographics to promote through social media and other channels the Global Standards for quality health care services for adolescents.

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Reported Sick from School: A Study into Addressing Medical Absenteeism Among Students (2015)

Vanneste–van Zandvoort, Universitaire Pers Maastricht, 2015

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European Framework for Quality Standards in School Health Services and Competences for School Health Professionals (2014)

The document has been elaborated in collaboration between EUSUHM and WHO, 2014

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Comparison of Youth Health Care in the EUSUHM Countries (2009)

Bachelor assignment by Rosemarie Wieske in Health Sciences at the University of Twente, 2009

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Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Childhood: A Guideline for School Health Care (2007)

This guideline from 2007 is the final report of a collaboration between member organizations from Belgium (Flanders), Croatia and Slovenia.

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