Principles and Values

The network of committees for Health Education recognizes the pre-health and health promotion defined by the Ottawa Charter:

"The preconditions for the achievement of health are peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resource use, social justice and equity. "

It endorses the following:

-> AUTONOMY AND RESPONSIBILITY OF INDIVIDUALS
If respect for individual autonomy is a basic principle to meet with responsibility of everyone on its own health and
the community, members of the FNES find that health behaviors are part of the choices of individuals, partly on the general societal context. Because of social, economic, cultural, the responsibility of persons is limited in their behavioral choices and the ability they have to change them. The overemphasis on social behaviors of health is reflected in the approaches to education and promotion of sustainable health.

-> HUMAN DIGNITY
The projects committee based on trust in humanity and the recognition of potential, skills and knowledge
individuals and groups, and the recognition of social organizations, cultural which they belong or
together. These projects refrain from using methods based on fear.

-> EQUITY
Members of the FNES are vigilant to promote for all people and all groups, access to educational resources
and the health care system regardless of the territory and the living environment in which they live.
They include a glance at all disadvantaged groups of people excluded even from a financial, social or cultural.
They believe, however qu'adresser a priority or almost exclusively, preventive actions to minorities can contribute through this preferential targeting, to marginalize, stigmatize them.

-> DEMOCRACY
Members of the FNES facilitate by all means an expression of the public about his health problems. They generate and promote
initiatives with an open mind and creative. They act to support the people and groups in their quest for greater control over their health and its determinants.
Members of the FNES make their design of a democratic and pluralistic society and solidarity, based on freedom, autonomy
and responsibility of people as social groups. Education is certainly one way of action hard to build this
type of society and the relationship between human beings that are a condition. She participates in the socialization of individuals and communities, and allows access to knowledge and learning methods, their emancipation, their demand for justice and fairness. Members of the FNES not only participate in this process alongside and within the educational system, but they also ensure that in their own practices and the education system would obviate any risk or any temptation to dominate, d 'Elitism, alienation or exclusion. The indictment education is first and foremost an act of alliance, not allegiance.

-> PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE HEALTH
Members of the FNES campaigning for a sustainable promotion of health. They pledge to work for the construction of coherent public health, involving planning, monitoring and health actions in a concerted and cross to make health promotion a national priority.

-> Secularism
The work FNES therefore that any public policy is measured about its impacts and consequences, in terms of public health, so in terms of well-being of the community. It defends both the local vision, comprehensive and International
issues and public health actions involving in a reflection and in a relationship of mutual the North and the South. She believes that health promotion can only be made in the length, continuity. The refrain FNES any membership and
political, partisan or religious association.

The tasks of the committees may be declined by eight axes.

Green Chip Contributing to the formulation, implementation and evaluation of public health policies from local to national level.
The committees draw their expertise and legitimacy in this area, their presence on the ground, with their proximity to the public knowledge of their health needs and demands, their knowledge of existing , Variety of professional skills of their teams and diversity of origin of their directors, their participation in numerous instances of public health at different levels (regional conference of health monitoring group of regional public health
departmental program of the MILDT, urban policy ...).

Orange Bullet Design, plan, implement and evaluate programs in response to local health priorities, departmental and regional authorities.

Green Chip Serve as council methodological institutions, and professional actors.

Orange Bullet Contribute to initial and continuing education for the health of their own teams, health professionals, from
education and social sector, and members of associations. Inform and educate elected to the promotion of health.

Green Chip Include all public and make available documentation on health, health promotion and methodological tools validated in health education. The reception and public broadcasting documentary is the most visible action committees and
often the desirability of a methodological later.

Orange Bullet Communicate and promote actions, methods and tools.

Green Chip Conducting studies, research and experimental projects. The research focuses to practice as a place of reflection, conceptualization and innovation.

Orange Bullet Develop the role of advocacy with officials and players of public policies at all levels and in all areas, so that is always taken into account health decisions, in particular the needs of individuals and groups difficulty.

Through the implementation of these missions, the education committees for health are known and recognized as resource centers in health education in the service of all health sector partners, social, educational. Their participation in the regional hubs of expertise provided by the circular of 2001 and implemented by the INPES-all regional committees where they exist, are the holders - by providing proof.