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Symposium. Health Assets for Young People's Wellbeing

The symposium 'Health Assets in a Global Context: Theory Methods Action. A series of events to translate the asset model into policy research and practice. Symposium 1: Health Assets for Young People's Wellbeing', was held in Seville from 28th to 30th April 2010. The event was organized by the University of Seville (Spain) and the University of Hertfordshire (England), in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children study (HBSC), and supported by the Department of Health in England and the Ministry of Health, Social Policy and Equality in Spain, Spanish Presidency of the European Union. It brought together internationally recognized experts, politicians, professionals, researchers and community members who work on issues related to salutogenesis, resilience and social capital; as well as, adolescents from around the world who provided the closest view of their reality.
The overall objective of the symposium was to contribute to the advancement of asset-based approaches to the welfare of young people and to present the ideas and themes of the book 'Health Assets in a Global Context: Theory Methods Action' by Morgan, Davies and Ziglio. It proposes an asset model that serves to address, among others, global inequalities in health. All this, highlighting the actions required from policy makers, researchers and professionals to make it happen and benefit health and development in different contexts.

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- Assets for Health and Development – individual level resilience. Dr Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer, Scotland

- Measuring wellbeing, some problems and possibilities. Dr Virginia Morrow, Institute of Education, England

- What is it to be well? Mr Tom Hennell, North West Regional Government, England

- The Salutogenic Perspective. Dr Bengt Lindstrom and Dr Monika Eriksson, Folkhälsan Research Centre, Finland

- Resilience as an asset for healthy development. Dr Ingrid Schoon, University of London, England

- The link between biology and social structure. Dr Mike Kelly, NICE, England

- Relevance of promoting risk and protective framework for promoting equity in young people. Dr Alfredo Oliva, University of Seville, Spain

- "Youth Resiliency" - An evidence-based positive social psychology framework to reduce adolescent risk behaviors by enhancing well-being: Implications for research, policy and programs. Dr Yossi Harel-Fisch, Bar Ilan University, Israel

- Key assets in adolescent multiple risk behaviour: The role of parents and peers. Margreet de Looze, PhD candidate, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

- The hierarchy of social assets for life satisfaction in English and Spanish young people. Fran Rivera, PhD candidate, University of Huelva, Spain; Carmen Moreno, University of Seville, Spain; Antony Morgan, Associate Director, National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), England

- Evidence: Exploring Risk and Protective Factors using the WHO Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study – Positive Health. Ottova, V., Wille, N., Ravens-Sieberer, U., & the Positive Health Focus Group HBSC

- Asset-Based Community Development. Dr Deborah Puntenney, NorthWestern University, Chicago, USA

- India: A tale of two nations. Dr Alok Mukhopadhyay, CEO, VHAI, India

- Parents and communities' assets to control under five child malaria in rural Benin. Dr David Houeto, CREDEPSA, West Africa

- The application and evaluation of an assets-based model in Latin America and the Caribbean: the experience with the healthy settings approach. Ms Cristina Franceschini, PAHO (Central and Latin America)

- The use of assets in promoting physical activity among women in difficult life situations. Dr Alfred Rütten, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

International Symposium. 25 years of the HBSC Study: Contributions and Future Challenges.

Our Spring meeting (HBSC Focus Group Meeting 15th-17th May 2008) held in Seville, and the HBSC Spanish team was acting as host. As a way of commemorating the 25th anniversary of HBSC, there was a special symposium on 16th May with the participation of representatives from the World Health Organization, the Spanish Ministry of Health and Consumption, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, the Regional Ministries of Health and Education, as well as of former Principal Investigator of countries belonging to the HBSC network.
This symposium’s venue was the Cartuja Monastery “Monasterio de La Cartuja”, and its main focus point was to reflect on HBSC contributions so far and on our future challenges.

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