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Canada's monthly school health report from the Canadian Association for School Health
Volume 4 Issue 11/12 (July-August 2010)
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Featuring Snakes & Ladders: The Evolution in our understanding about School health promotion

The summer months often include board games with the family, so the feature article this month is a rudimentary version of the game “Snakes & Ladders”. It represents the ups and downs of our evolving understanding about school health promotion. (The PDF version of the game is attached to this page)

This issue also features a number of new gadgets on the www.canadianschoolhealth.ca web site. As the year progresses, we will be using these new technologies to help us to exchange knowledge and information in more effective and convenient ways.

Canadian School Health Knowledge Network NewsCanadian Media Reports for July-August 2010

  • Lazy, Hazy Days of Summer. CASH activities came to a relaxing stop over the summer, as Doug McCall was engaged in contract and conference work in Asia and Europe and then relaxed on the beach on Vancouver Island.
  • Toot Your Horn by Tweeting! Do you have SH news you want to share with 2500 other Canadian SH practitioners. Then feel free to post your news on the shared "CSH Tweets" account on Twitter. Simply go to www.twitter.com/cshtweets, sign in as user "cshtweets`, password `cash-aces and post your news. Those tweets and other items are subsequently posted on the CSH web site through posting updates directly onto our School Health Blog and will also be included in this monthly emailing to over 2500 people. This “self-serve” process is starting to work, with three recent postings coming directly from other organizations into the School Health Blog.
  • New Features on www.canadianschoolhealth.ca
    In our continuing effort to use technology effectively, we have added a couple of features to the web site. These include:
    • Enabling the chairs of our Communities of Practice to communicate with CoP members through designated “friends” lists within the membership of the web site
    • Adding Instant Message boxes onto a “Drop-In - Office Hours” page in the web site. During next school year, we will designate times, topics and resource people that will be available to answer questions through private or public IM messages or to drop into an informal “web meeting” using our webinar platform. And, yes, we will also be available by telephone during those “office hours”. Indeed, the page also includes links to a VOIP-based telephone system where anyone can call us free from anywhere in Canada.
    • Designated Twitter account tracking a topic. In cooperation with the International School Health Network, we have established a web page within the Mental Health CoP section of the web site that posts the very latest research on schools & mental health. If you would like to access the information more frequently than that, you can follow the ISHN Twitter Newsfeed on School Mental Health from your own Twitter account.
    • Search for Canadian SH news using our Google customized search engine for Canadian newspapers
  • Sign Up & Sign In: We are continuing to transfer the email contacts lists over to our professional networking web site at www.canadianschoolhealth.ca Agencies, organizations and individuals will be able to control the email they receive from this wiki-based web site through their own profiles. (This occurs by "watching" or "unwatching" selected pages). As well, they will be able to use the tools on the web site to interact with others and receive RSS feeds from the daily blog of SH news.

News Story (Aug 25-10) UVic to open new School of Public Health and Social Policy http://is.gd/fbRtw

News Story (Aug 19-10) Certain pesticides linked to attention problems in kidshttp://is.gd/eoKNf

News Story (Aug 19-10) Judge: Tobacco-display ban violates store owner’s rightshttp://is.gd/eoKEF

News Story (Aug 18-10) Alberta issues warning about viral meningitishttp://is.gd/eoKJX

News Story (Aug 16-10) Ont. parents suspect Wi-Fi making kids sickhttp://is.gd/eoK5E

News Story (Aug 18-10) Type 2 diabetes, low income linked in womenhttp://is.gd/eoJQx

News Story (Aug 17-10) Teens carry 30 per cent more BPA than rest of populationhttp://is.gd/em1bM

News Story (Aug 17-10) Wi-Fi in schools spark parental fearshttp://is.gd/em18i

News Story (Aug 16-10) BPA contaminants found in most Canadianshttp://is.gd/ekd4k

News Story (Aug 13-10) The real lessons of H1N1http://is.gd/ekbWz

News Story (Aug 12-10) H1N1 outbreak strained Canadian health system, led to public loss of confidence http://is.gd/fbUij

News Story (Aug 11-10) As swine flu pandemic ends, Canada must rethink flu-fighting strategy: Expert http://is.gd/fbUtZ

News Story (Aug 10-10) McCain Foods moves to cut sodium levelshttp://is.gd/ec65u

News Story (Aug 10-10) As swine flu pandemic ends, Canada must rethink flu-fighting strategy: experthttp://is.gd/ec5Wv

News Story (Aug 4-10) Canadian Fitness tax credit benefits affluent kids: studyhttp://is.gd/e2DnZ

News Story (Jul 6-10) Physical Activity in Teens Linked to Mental Skills Late in Lifehttp://is.gd/dQWma

News Story (Aug 4-10) 'Bedbug pandemic' possible, group warnshttp://is.gd/e2DjC

News Story (Aug 4-10) Few Canadians know rules on abortion, poll findshttp://is.gd/e2De1

News Story (Jul 31-10) Surrey Community-Schools Partnership receives United Way Awardhttp://is.gd/e2x1q

News Story (Jul 30-10) Salt-reduction targets shaken off by industry, health ministerhttp://is.gd/e2GQs

News Story (July 23-10) Canadian PM, Aglukkaq slammed on AIDS at world meetinghttp://is.gd/dK0nk

News Release (Jul 22-10) RESEARCH DATA ANALYST - UPEI COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL HEALTH RESEARCH GROUPhttp://is.gd/e2lUa

Blog Post (Jul 12-10) 7 Strategies for Supporting Public Health’s Work in Schools OPHEAhttp://is.gd/e2qXW

Canadian Research, Reports and Resources from the July-August School Health Blog Postings

Our blog also tracks Canadian research studies, reports and new planning/educational resources announcements. Here are the ones posted for July and August 2010:
Feature Article:

The Snakes & Ladders Game depicting the evolution in our understanding about school health promotion is attached herewith as a PDF file.




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