Community Engagement

 

District health promotion activities

 

Mobilising community participation and support is critical to achieving our desired health goals. We have forged close partnership with District Councils and community groups in mounting health educational campaigns and publicity programmes to disseminate information and guidelines about diseases to the public regularly to increase their awareness of public health threats. We will continue to support the District Councils and engage community groups in implementing healthy city projects and organizing health promotion activities throughout Hong Kong

 

Community health programmes

 

At CHP, we are committed to fostering strong partnerships with stakeholders in running community health programmes to promote healthy living and address public health problems. For instance, we partner with schools, teachers, parents, catering industry, restaurant trade, professional organizations, and relevant government departments in the campaigns to promote a healthy and balanced diet among school children and the community at large.

 

Building on the encouraging response to the health promotion campaigns, we will continue to orchestrate actions in engaging stakeholders and offer professional support to promote healthy eating habits and physical activities. Comprehensive strategies comprising alliance building; publicity and advocacy; experience sharing; education and empowerment; capacity building; and research and evaluation will be employed to foster a strong alliance with relevant stakeholders to raise health literacy and create an environment conducive to healthy living in the community.

 

Enhancing community health literacy with special attention to the needs of ethnic minority (EM) groups is part of our whole-of-community approach to emergency preparedness and the effective containment of disease outbreaks. We will develop networks bridging community NGOs and EM populations to ensure that need-based, socially appropriate and culturally relevant interventions are implemented to enhance health literacy of ethnic minorities.