BACKEmpower our Youth and Transform our Future
Prof CHAN Chung Ngor Juliana
Worldwide, 70% of deaths are due to chronic diseases including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, respiratory disease and mental illness.
The proliferation of processed, high-calorie and restaurant foods have transformed our dietary habits with increasing trends of obesity.
In a school survey conducted in 2000, including 2,115 adolescents, 3-30% of them had obesity, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, high blood glucose and/or protein in the urine indicating early damage to their kidney and blood vessels.
Reduced physical activity and increased calorie consumption has increased the prevalence of overweight/obesity in children from 7% before to 24% during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2022.
The rising trend of obesity and diabetes in young people and low levels of awareness about these silent risk conditions calls for urgent actions to improve their eating habits to reduce the healthcare burden and loss of societal productivity.
We shall adopt a holistic approach introducing awareness, detection and cognitive-psychosocial-behavioural modification program augmented through peer, school and family influence to prevent and control young-onset chronic diseases.
We shall partner with secondary schools and implement programs including lectures and group activities to introduce students about the killing but preventable nature of chronic diseases and help them understand the relationships between health and lifestyle including diet, nutrition and exercises
We shall empower our youth about the interlinking nature of knowledge, health and wealth and the use of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) subjects in nurturing a well-informed community with health literacy and knowledge to take early preventive actions.
Through data collection and cooperative analysis, we shall promote their Health and Food Literacy and inspire them on the use of STEAM education to create solutions with impacts.
Improve students' health and food literacy and ability to manage their own health and lifestyle
Learn how to collect, analyze and display health data to enhance health awareness
Engage students, parents and teachers in this health education program by inviting them to measure and monitor essential health indicators and share the trends of improvement annually to enhance public awareness of promoting good health starting from school
Encourage students to use available technology to assess, manage and monitor health risks
Establish a team of young health ambassadors and nurture our future knowledge workforce to fight against chronic diseases.
Empower our Youth and Transform our Future
Prof CHAN Chung Ngor Juliana
Worldwide, 70% of deaths are due to chronic diseases including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, respiratory disease and mental illness.
The proliferation of processed, high-calorie and restaurant foods have transformed our dietary habits with increasing trends of obesity.
In a school survey conducted in 2000, including 2,115 adolescents, 3-30% of them had obesity, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, high blood glucose and/or protein in the urine indicating early damage to their kidney and blood vessels.
Reduced physical activity and increased calorie consumption has increased the prevalence of overweight/obesity in children from 7% before to 24% during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2022.
The rising trend of obesity and diabetes in young people and low levels of awareness about these silent risk conditions calls for urgent actions to improve their eating habits to reduce the healthcare burden and loss of societal productivity.
We shall adopt a holistic approach introducing awareness, detection and cognitive-psychosocial-behavioural modification program augmented through peer, school and family influence to prevent and control young-onset chronic diseases.
We shall partner with secondary schools and implement programs including lectures and group activities to introduce students about the killing but preventable nature of chronic diseases and help them understand the relationships between health and lifestyle including diet, nutrition and exercises
We shall empower our youth about the interlinking nature of knowledge, health and wealth and the use of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) subjects in nurturing a well-informed community with health literacy and knowledge to take early preventive actions.
Through data collection and cooperative analysis, we shall promote their Health and Food Literacy and inspire them on the use of STEAM education to create solutions with impacts.
Improve students' health and food literacy and ability to manage their own health and lifestyle
Learn how to collect, analyze and display health data to enhance health awareness
Engage students, parents and teachers in this health education program by inviting them to measure and monitor essential health indicators and share the trends of improvement annually to enhance public awareness of promoting good health starting from school
Encourage students to use available technology to assess, manage and monitor health risks
Establish a team of young health ambassadors and nurture our future knowledge workforce to fight against chronic diseases.
- 250 secondary school year 3 and 4 students
- 400 parents
- 20 teachers
2023
Education, Healthcare, Public Health