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National Forum of Czech Republic

Official Name:
Forum zdravi podporujicich organizaci (z.s.p.o.)
 
Internet:
Please turn to National Contact Office Czech Republic
 
Founded:
The decision to transform the informal National WHP Network into the Forum was taken on the September 24, 2000, the statute prepared and accepted on May 30, 2003. The first general assembly was held on the May 30, 2003.
 
Objectives:
The Forum would like to continue in the activities of the National WHP Network, launching workplace health promotion in the framework of the ENWHP and the WHO-EURO policies. According to a Decision of the Czech government No. 706 of June 2, 2000, on fulfilling tasks recommended in the Declaration of the 3rd WHO-EURO ministerial conference in London, in 1999, and in its document on Good practice in health protection and promotion management at work. This comprehensive policy includes four multidisciplinary areas:
(1) occupational health and safety,
(2) health promotion,
(3) environmental management and environmental health, and
(4) social capital and community development.
The document and consequent WHO brochures (Series Health and Safety, Environment in Enterprises, WHO Euro issue 5 (2002) and previous) have elaborated details of this comprehensive strategy. However, while the area of health protection has a long tradition, a developed infrastructure and legal basis, the decision of a company to start health promotion activities is voluntary, as is the participation of employees in the program. For that reason the WHP is not a statutory requirement. In this context, models of good practice in a network of companies, members of the Forum, might motivate the undecided ones. 
 
Structure:
A new member is accepted by the Forum´s Council decision upon the organisation's statutory body application, designation of a person in charge of representing his/her organisation in the association, and upon a decision to launch and implement a WHP project. The forum's secretariat is based at the address of the Forum secretary. Representatives of pertinent official authorities or institutions may be invited ad hoc to the meeting, or may, based on the general assembly decision become a council member with advisory voting right.
 
Cooperation Partners: 
Individual persons, professionals and scientists may become members of a filial civic association Consortium of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (basic science, education, publications).
Representatives of companies were not inclined to take decisions on scientific, educational problems and publications. Preferred was the foundation of a filial civic association, enabling involvement of a variety of professions in connection with the multidisciplinary character of the WHP area. A special reason is the future necessity to arrange programs of education in regions.
Among the tasks of the consortium are criteria of evaluation of the WHP screening and intervention quality and for the competency of individual providers. Further, evaluation of WHP program outcomes of health and productivity management, for comparisons (benchmarking) between companies, using validate instruments for monitoring, etc.  
  
 
Adress/Contact:
Forum Chairman:
Dipl.Ing. Rudolf Hajny, SkodaAuto, Mlada Boleslav
E-mail: rudolf.hajny@skoda-auto.cz

Forum Secretary:
Jan Drasnar, CMKOS, Konevova 54/1107, CZ-13000 Prague 3
E-mail: drasnar.jan@cmkos.cz

Form Program Coordinator: Alena Steflova, MD
Consortium Chairman: Professor Miloslav Kukleta, MD, PhD
Vice-Chairman: Assoc. Professor Vojtech Hainer, MD, PhD,
Assoc. Professor Milan Horvath, Dr.Nat.Sci., PhD, Program coordinator
Scientific Secretary: Jaroslav Formanek, MD, PhD
Webmaster of Forum and Consortium: Dipl.Ing. Jan Dvorak, PhD, e-mail: dvorak@szu.cz

Partnership:
The Czech Network for Workplace Health Promotion is an associated partner of the ENWHP.