In our health prevention program, medical and healthcare students hold interactive classes in schools in Târgu Mureș on topics such as healthy lifestyle, sexual education, drug prevention, and resuscitation. Based on our experience, university students—being closer in age—are able to address the pupils more credibly, making the program particularly effective.
Results of the program so far:
• 457 trained volunteers
• 129 active volunteers
• 457 prevention classes
• 5600 students reached
Discussions and activities about healthy nutrition, the importance of physical activity, and unhealthy habits help students reconsider their views on their lifestyle.
They have the opportunity to learn about:
healthy eating and related myths
factors influencing hunger
the psychological and social background of unhealthy habits
the importance of sufficient quality and quantity of sleep
the importance of hydration
the significance of a healthy body image
the dangers of trendy diets promising rapid weight loss
An interactive session highlighting the effects of illegal drugs on young people’s bodies, social relationships, and future.
Together, we aim to explore the individual, community, and societal reasons for consumption, and identify the risk and protective factors that play a decisive role in the development or prevention of addiction.
We provide students the opportunity to gain reliable knowledge about adolescent changes, sexuality, intimate hygiene, various sexually transmitted infections and protection methods, abortion and its possible consequences, and to review their existing knowledge.
We aim for this education to help young people approach the topic more thoughtfully, with responsibility toward themselves and others.
Our goal is that, through peer education, high school students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for resuscitation so that they can save lives in emergencies.
The strength of our program lies in the fact that, after theoretical instruction (site assessment, checking breathing, mouth-to-mouth ventilation, chest compressions, AED use), students practice resuscitation steps in small groups.