The WHO Regional 2ND ANNUAL MEETING OF HEPA EUROPE Office for Europe The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations created in 1948 with the primary responsibility for international health matters and public health. The WHO Regional Office for Europe is one of six regional offices throughout the world, each with its own programme geared to the particular nd health conditions of the The 2 annual meeting of HEPA Europe, the European network for the countries it serves. promotion of health-enhancing activity, was kindly hosted by the Urho Member States Kekonnen (UKK) Institute for Health Promotion Research in Tampere, Finland, and co-sponsored by the Finnish Ministry of Health and Social Albania Andorra Affairs. It was attended by 39 participants from 16 countries. On the one Armenia hand, the meeting was convened to review and discuss recent, relevant Austria Azerbaijan international developments and experiences and national approaches with Belarus regard to physical activity promotion as well as aspects of monitoring and Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina epidemiology. In this regard, 4 key note speeches, 15 poster presentations Bulgaria on national activities and approaches and 7 plenary presentations on Croatia Cyprus international activities and projects were delivered. On the other hand, Czech Republic progress made in the first year of the existence of HEPA Europe was Denmark discussed, in particular in implementing the work programme 2005 / 2006 Estonia Finland as well with regard to contributions and funding. In addition, 35 applications France of institutions for membership were evaluated and confirmed, together with Georgia Germany two invitations to individual members. Finally, decisions were made on Greece activities to be continued and future projects to be undertaken by HEPA Hungary Europe. 2nd annual meeting Iceland Ireland Israel Italy The participants discussed and adopted the following documents: the Kazakhstan activity report 2005 / 2006, the work programme 2006 / 2007, the financing of HEPA Europe Kyrgyzstan Latvia concept 2005 – 2007, and updated Terms of Reference of HEPA Europe. 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E-mail: [email protected] Original: ENGLISH Web site: www.euro.who.int 2nd annual meeting of HEPA Europe European network for the promotion of health- enhancing physical activity ABSTRACT The 2nd annual meeting of HEPA Europe, the European network for the promotion of health-enhancing activity, was kindly hosted by the Urho Kekonnen (UKK) Institute for Health Promotion Research in Tampere, Finland, and co-sponsored by the Finnish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. It was attended by 39 participants from 16 countries. On the one hand, the meeting was convened to review and discuss recent, relevant international developments and experiences and national approaches with regard to physical activity promotion as well as aspects of monitoring and epidemiology. In this regard, 4 key note speeches, 15 poster presentations on national activities and approaches and 7 plenary presentations on international activities and projects were delivered. On the other hand, progress made in the first year of the existence of HEPA Europe was discussed, in particular in implementing the work programme 2005 / 2006 as well with regard to contributions and funding. In addition, 35 applications of institutions for membership were evaluated and confirmed, together with two invitations to individual members. Finally, decisions were made on activities to be continued and future projects to be undertaken by HEPA Europe. The participants discussed and adopted the following documents: the activity report 2005 / 2006, the work programme 2006 / 2007, the financing concept 2005 – 2007, and updated Terms of Reference of HEPA Europe. The 3rd annual meeting will take place on 16-18 May 2007 in Graz, Austria, kindly hosted the by the University of Graz. Keywords HEALTH PROMOTION HEALTH PLANNING PHYSICAL FITNESS EXERCISE EUROPE Address requests about publications of the WHO Regional Office for Europe to: Publications WHO Regional Office for Europe Scherfigsvej 8 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Alternatively, complete an online request form for documentation, health information, or for permission to quote or translate, on the WHO/Europe web site at http://www.euro.who.int/pubrequest. © World Health Organization 2006 All rights reserved. The Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization welcomes requests for permission to reproduce or translate its publications, in part or in full. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. 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CONTENTS Page 1 Introduction and overview ............................................................... 2 2 Minutes of the meeting..................................................................... 3 2.1 Welcoming of participants and opening session.................................................... 3 2.2 Key note lectures ............................................................................................... 3 2.3 Poster sessions on national activities and approaches ........................................... 4 2.4 Plenary presentations on international activities and projects ................................ 5 2.5 HEPA Europe network topics ............................................................................... 7 2.6 3rd annual meeting of HEPA Europe in 2007 ....................................................... 13 2.7 Closing of the meeting...................................................................................... 13 Annex 14 Annex 1: List of working and background papers ......................................................... 14 Annex 2: HEPA Europe Activity Report 2005 / 2006 ..................................................... 15 Annex 3: Work Programme 2006 / 2007...................................................................... 30 Annex 4: List of participants ....................................................................................... 49 EUR/03/5068070 page 2 1 Introduction and overview Based on policy statements such as the WHO Global Strategy for Diet, Physical Activity and Health and on corresponding statements from the European Commission, a preparatory Physical Activity Expert Meeting took place in Magglingen, Switzerland, in June 2004, at the initiative of the Swiss Federal Offices of Sports and Public Health. At that meeting, participants - among them the WHO Regional Office for Europe - agreed on the creation of the “European network for the promotion of health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA Europe)”1. Based on this agreement, the network was launched at its 1st annual meeting in May 2005 in Gerlev, Denmark2. The WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome office, accepted the invitation to closely collaborate with the network. The 2nd annual meeting of HEPA Europe, the European network for the promotion of health- enhancing physical activity was kindly hosted by the Urho Kekkonen (UKK) Institute for Health Promotion Research, Tampere, Finland, and co-sponsored by the Finnish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. It was attended by 39 participants from the following 16 countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Two participants from WHO Regional Office of Europe attended as well (see Annex 4 for detailed list of participants). The main chair of the meeting was Brian Martin from the Swiss Federal Office of Sports, supported by different chairs for subsections of the meeting. It was assisted