In the

higher education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completi ...

setting, the process of

health promotion Health promotion is, as stated in the 1986 World Health Organization (WHO) Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, the "process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health." Scope The WHO's 1986 Ottawa Charter for Healt ...

is applied within a

post-secondary Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including univers ...

academic environments to increase health and wellbeing. The process needs professionals to engage in all five

WHO Who or WHO may refer to: * Who (pronoun), an interrogative or relative pronoun * Who?, one of the Five Ws in journalism * World Health Organization Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Who, a creature in the Dr. Seuss book '' Horton He ...

Ottawa Charter Health Promotion Actions and particularly reorient all the sectors of a college campus towards

evidence-based Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the idea that occupational practices ought to be based on scientific evidence. While seemingly obviously desirable, the proposal has been controversial, with some arguing that results may not specialize to indiv ...

prevention Prevention may refer to: Health and medicine * Preventive healthcare, measures to prevent diseases or injuries rather than curing them or treating their symptoms General safety * Crime prevention, the attempt to reduce deter crime and crimi ...

, utilizing a

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the det ...

population health Population health has been defined as "the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group". It is an approach to health that aims to improve the health of an entire human population. It ha ...

community health Community health refers to simple health services that are delivered by laymen outside hospitals and clinics. Community health is also the subset of public health that is taught to and practiced by clinicians. Community health volunteers and communi ...

model.

Health promotion Health promotion is, as stated in the 1986 World Health Organization (WHO) Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, the "process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health." Scope The WHO's 1986 Ottawa Charter for Healt ...

requires a coordinated effort in all five Actions: # Building healthy public policy # Creating supportive environments # Strengthening community action # Developing personal skills # Re-orienting all service sectors toward prevention of illness and promotion of health

Internationally

Th
International Health Promoting Universities & Colleges Network
is guided by the ''Okanagan Charter: An International Charter for Health Promoting University and Colleges'', which calls on post-secondary schools to embed health into all aspects of campus culture and to lead health promotion action and collaboration locally and globally. Created in June 2015, the Charter provides institutions with a common language, principles, and framework to become health and wellbeing promoting campuses. .

In Australia

In Canada

The “National Standard of Canada for Mental Health and Well-Being for Post-Secondary Students” was developed in 2018 and is a voluntary guideline to help post-secondary institutions support the mental health and well-being of students, including the promotion of mental health and well-being. The Standard aims to support the following key outcomes: * Raise awareness about mental health and decrease mental illness-related stigma, * Provide healthier and safer institutional environments, * Improve opportunities for student success and flourishing, and * Promote life and resiliency skills that students can use at school, at work, and in daily life The Canadian Association of College & University Student Services (CACUSS) co-developed the Post-Secondary Student Mental Health: Guide to a Systemic Approach with the Canadian Mental Health Association. This guide aims to act as a resource and a framework to support the creation of communities on campus that are conducive to transformative learning and mental well-being through a systemic approach. CACUSS also includes several communities and networks dedicated to health promotion in higher education including campus mental health, student health & wellness, and student peer support programs. In Ontario, many post-secondary institutions belong to th
Ontario University & College Health Association
(OUCHA) which allow them to share best practices for health services and promotion across institutions
OUCHA
works to develop and pursue all which will preserve and improve the health of University and College students and their community. The overall goal of the organization is to promote and ensure optimum health services to the student population while also providing effective health education in both prevention and management of health issues. All post-secondary institutions in Ontario also have access to th
Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health
(CICMH), which seeks to support post-secondary institutions in Ontario in their commitment to student mental health
CICMH
works with institutions to build knowledge and skills of institutions, foster innovation in collaborative response, and develop partnerships to leverage community knowledge in order to address the mental health needs of students.

In the United Kingdom

In the United States

Developing personal skills is currently the action most often used in the higher education setting. These Health Educators or

Health Education Health education is a profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health, as well as sexual and r ...

departments can exist in one or multiple sectors simultaneously throughout the institution, offering skill building initiatives like health communication campaigns or educational workshops to prevent chronic diseases,

stress Stress may refer to: Science and medicine * Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition * Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phrase ...

anxiety Anxiety is an emotion which is characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. Anxiety is different than fear in that the former is defined as the anticipation of a future threat wh ...

, depression,

addiction Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to engage in certain behaviors, one of which is the usage of a drug, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences. Repetitive drug use o ...

suicide Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders (including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders), physical disorders (such as chronic fatigue syndrome), and s ...

grief Grief is the response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or some living thing that has died, to which a bond or affection was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, grief also has physical, cogni ...

hazing Hazing (American English), initiation, beasting (British English), bastardisation (Australian English), ragging (South Asian English) or deposition refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating in a group that humiliates, ...

personal safety Human security is a paradigm for understanding global vulnerabilities whose proponents challenges the traditional notion of national security through military security by arguing that the proper referent for security should be at the human rather th ...

bike safety Bicycle safety is the use of road traffic safety practices to reduce risk associated with cycling. Risk can be defined as the number of incidents occurring for a given amount of cycling. Some of this subject matter is hotly debated: for example ...

as well as

alcohol Alcohol most commonly refers to: * Alcohol (chemistry), an organic compound in which a hydroxyl group is bound to a carbon atom * Alcohol (drug), an intoxicant found in alcoholic drinks Alcohol may also refer to: Chemicals * Ethanol, one of sev ...

tobacco Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus '' Nicotiana'' of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the ...

, and other

drugs A drug is any chemical substance that causes a change in an organism's physiology or psychology when consumed. Drugs are typically distinguished from food and substances that provide nutritional support. Consumption of drugs can be via inhalat ...

misuse. Health Education departments often offer other initiatives to enhance

sexual health Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a field of research, healthcare, and social activism that explores the health of an individual's reproductive system and sexual wellbeing during all stages of their life. The term can also be further de ...

nutrition Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life. It provides organisms with nutrients, which can be metabolized to create energy and chemical structures. Failure to obtain sufficient n ...

stress management Stress management is a wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's level of stress, especially chronic stress, usually for the purpose of and for the motive of improving everyday functioning. Stress produces num ...

consent Consent occurs when one person voluntarily agrees to the proposal or desires of another. It is a term of common speech, with specific definitions as used in such fields as the law, medicine, research, and sexual relationships. Consent as und ...

mindfulness Mindfulness is the practice of purposely bringing one's attention to the present-moment experience without evaluation, a skill one develops through meditation or other training. Mindfulness derives from ''sati'', a significant element of Hind ...

, and healthy relationships. A common methodology for personal skills development initiatives is peer health education. The

National Commission for Health Education Credentialing The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC, ) is a professional health education credentialing body in the United States of America. The commission's office is located in Whitehall, Pennsylvania, just north of Allentown ...

(NCHEC) works to improve the practice of health education and to serve the public and profession of health education by certifying health education specialists (also known as the CHES credential), which promotes professional and career development of health care education, preparation, and practice, all ideals thought to promote the delivery of health care. NCHEC develops and administers the CHES exam in the United States, a competency-based test for health education specialists. The CHES credential is renewable every five years, requiring a baseline of continuing education credits for recertification. This is akin to the requirements and practices of many other health professions, including physicians ( ACCME), pharmacists (ACPE), and nurses (ANCC).
The American College Health Association Standards of Practice for Health Promotion in Higher Education
first published in 2001 provides measurable guidelines for enhancing the quality of health promotion overall while guiding health education, prevention and wellness efforts at colleges and universities. The

Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education The Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) is a consortium of 41 higher education professional associations representing over 115,000 professionals, many with international constituencies, that promotes the development o ...

creates and delivers a dynamic and credible Book of Professional Standards and Guidelines and Self-Assessment Guides that are designed to lead to a host of quality-controlled programs and services and promotes standards in student affairs, student services, and student development programs for the ultimate purpose of fostering and enhancing student learning, development, and achievement and in general to promote good citizenship. CAS updated all functional area standards, including CAS for Health Promotion in Higher Education in 2012. By 2021 the first eight institutions had adopted the ''Okanagan Charter: An International Charter for Health Promoting University and Colleges'', and became the foundation for dozens more to create th
U.S. Health Promoting Campuses Network
The ultimate goal of the network is to guide and support campuses, as they navigate the process to adopt the Okanagan Charter as an aspirational document to guide their campus wellbeing efforts from a comprehensive and systems level approach.

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