Creating Healthy University Standards for Workforce, Policy and Infrastructure to Support Health and Wellbeing
As part of a Department of Health funded project, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) – working with Manchester Metropolitan University – was commissioned by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH []), to:
- articulate a model for Healthy Universities whereby the healthy settings approach is applied within the higher education sector
- produce recommendations for the development and operationalisation of a National Healthy Universities Framework for England
- ensure effective co-ordination of initiatives and propose next steps for progressing the Healthy Universities agenda
In fulfilment of these objectives, the report Healthy Universities: Concept, Model and Framework for Applying the Healthy Settings Approach within Higher Education in England Final Report, provides a background to Healthy Universities, outlines the project implementation process, presents a model, discusses key considerations in formulating a framework and makes recommendations for action.
Healthy Universities features as a named programme in Healthy Lives, Healthy People, the Coalition Government's new Strategy for Public Health view it here> in England published on 30th November 2010. The strategy includes the following statement:
"The Healthy Schools, Healthy Further Education and Healthy Universities programmes will continue to be developed by their respective sectors, as voluntary programmes, collaborating where appropriate and exploring partnership working with business and voluntary bodies." (Para. 3.15, p.34).
