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CREATIVE HEALTH PROJECT
We are an international community health team consisting of researchers from Fukushima Medical University, Koriyama Women’s University, Kagoshima University, and collaborating organizations. We run participatory research aiming to improve the health literacy skills of children and young people in disaster-prone and disaster-vulnerable countries in Asia and Africa, namely, Japan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Rwanda.
By combining medical, nutritional, and arts activities, our “Creative Health” program uses a participatory approach to children’s health and education, and strengthens their roles in the community. In this program, children will be encouraged to lead these learning activities and practice new health promotion skills in their community. Local university students take the initiative (under the guidance of university faculty) to develop teaching tools and structure workshops.
Through the program’s implementation, qualitative data, as well as numeric, text, and visual forms of data, are garnered from children, young people, and adults participating in the workshops, then analyzed and triangulated in order to seek ways to improve the health and community engagement of our next generation. We will develop a “university-community collaboration manual for implementing Creative Health” as the final output of the project so that the program can be disseminated and implemented in much wider regions.
本事業は、福島県立医科大学、郡山女子大学、そして鹿児島大学が共同で行う国際研究です。災害対応が脆弱かつ災害多発地域であるアジア・アフリカ4カ国（カンボジア、インドネシア、ベトナム、ルワンダ）を対象にして、日本がつなぎ役となります。この事業では保健医療従事者となる若者と地域の子ども達が協力して、主体的に健康と地域とのつながりについて考えられるヘルスリテラシー（健康情報を理解して使う力）の向上を目指します。各フィールドの大学や学校と協力して、医学、栄養学及び芸術を融合したクリエイティブヘルス健康教育を実践し、量的分析、質的分析及び社会学の手法を用いて複視的な効果評価を行うとともに、最終的にはクリエイティブヘルスの大学と地域連携型推進マニュアルを作成して公表します。
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Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
