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. 2021 Jul 8;13(7):2338. doi: 10.3390/nu13072338

Table 4.

Health promotion in Czechia *.

Project Title Main Themes Setting
Healthy aging project [80]
  • Support of lifelong employment, learning, and social security of senior citizens

  • Improvement in health and social services for seniors

  • Awareness raising, anti-stigmatization, and anti-discrimination

  • Housing and residential social services

  • Interdisciplinary cooperation, especially between health and social areas, including local governments, educational institutions, non-governmental organizations, and business. Cooperation with the National Network of Healthy Cities and reginal hygienic stations

Health Promoting School [81,82]
  • Improving the assortment of food in vending machines, school canteens, and buffets according to dietary recommendations

  • Regular physical activity in school (providing place and time for physical activity every day)

  • Educating teachers about healthy nutrition and sport and incorporating this knowledge into the whole educational process

  • Full-time access to drinking water

  • Kindergartens and primary schools

Healthy City [83]
  • Increasing the number of parks and recreation zones in the city

  • Improving public transport

  • Improving the level of safety in the city

  • Improving the cleanliness of public spaces

  • Raising awareness about importance of sport and nutrition

  • Raising awareness about non-communicable diseases (diabetes, CVD, oncological diseases)

  • Tackling the obesogenic environment

  • Over 2152 cities and towns with 5423 million inhabitants (52% of Czech citizens)

Healthy Workplace [84]
  • Healthy and safe workplace conditions

  • Coping with stress

  • Decreasing the amount of work-related injuries

  • Prevention of chronic musculoskeletal disorders and back pain

  • Decreasing the level of noise pollution

  • Office and workspaces around the country

Delicious life [85]
  • Improving the knowledge of senior citizens about nutrition and motivation to achieve positive changes and be physical activity

  • Improvement in social participation

  • Social care institutions

Educational program physical activity and nutrition [86]
  • Improving the quality of physical education classes in schools

  • Adding physical activity breaks before and in between classes

  • Creating afterschool clubs of various physical activities

  • Providing all-day access to sugar-free drinks

  • Increasing the amount of information about healthy nutrition in the curriculum

  • Improving the quality and increasing the variety of food in school canteens

  • Changing the assortment of the snacks in school vending machines in the direction of a healthier one

  • Primary Schools

The National Cycling Development Strategy of the Czech Republic for 2013–2020 [87]
  • Ensuring the financing of a cycling infrastructure

  • Increasing the safety of bicycle traffic

  • Methodological support for the development of bicycle transport in cities and the "Cycling Academy" project

  • Whole country

* This is a list of selected examples.