JMIR Publications

ABSTRACT

Background:

Over the last decade, Health Promoting Schools (HPS) have emerged as a powerful framework to promote healthy behaviors in many countries. This has led to the creation of regional and national networks, which favor the implementation of health policies in educational contexts. However, HPS still present several challenges, highlighting the excessive workload involved in the accreditation, design and implementation processes, and the lack of continuous supervision of health promoting interventions. In this sense, WHO and UNESCO pointed out the urgent need of creating a web platform, which would help and facilitate HPS management and the evaluation.

Objective:

WHO and UNESCO pointed out the urgent need of creating a web platform, which would help and facilitate HPS management and the evaluation. Herein, the aim of this study is to describe the used protocol to co-design a web platform named REDEPS-Gestión Platform.

Methods:

The Double Diamond Design Approach (DDDA) has been used to co-design this web-platform which will facilitate the integral management and evaluation of Health Promoting Schools in the Spanish region of Aragon (NE Spain).

Results:

This project provides a user-friendly platform where educational centers and the responsible public administration, as the main users, have access to key administrative processes like the accreditation, design, implementation, and evaluation of intervention programs.

Conclusions:

We expect that REDEPS-Gestión will improve the impact and sustainability of health promoting interventions in Aragon in the medium and long term.