SOCIAL PROGRAMME

HealthZone of the Health Promotion Board Singapore is a unique healthy lifestyle exhibition centre. It combines health education with entertainment and provides visitors with a fun, interactive learning environment. Occupying an area of about 1,000 square metres, the exhibition covers nine thematic areas: Fitness Funhouse, Exciting Eatery, Addiction Mall, Tooth Terrain, Vision Vista, Puberty Passage, Seniors Spot, Happiness Hall and Lifestyle & Diseases.A variety of colourful and exciting larger-than-life displays, imaginative interactives and lively multimedia exhibits are used to communicate health information. HealthZone also conducts skills-based health education workshops on a variety of healthy lifestyle related topics for children and adults. These workshops reinforce and complement the information communicated in the exhibition area with hands on participation. They focus on the learning of practical health skills necessary to make healthier choices e.g, reading nutrition labels on packaging, learning an exercise/ workout routine, managing stress. HealthZone provides an avenue to discover, be amazed, and to enjoy learning about what it takes to lead healthier and better lives.

The Nutrition, Health & Wellness Centre (NHWC) set up at Singapore Polytechnic is the first of its nature in Singapore. It is equipped with facilities under one roof to provide hands-on training to support the Diploma in Nutrition, Health & Wellness students to have a strong foundation in nutrition, health and wellness principles.

The NHWC is set up with the following aims:

Given that behavioural change goes beyond the health sector, HPB has worked with non-health partners and leveraged on IT technology when designing health promotion initiatives. This tour aims to showcase some of these initiatives, share learning points and enable participants to experience the initiatives from the people’s point of view. The tour comprises of going to a Health Promoting Mall where participants will experience the Mall Brisk Walk, and the Supermarket Tour where participants will be briefed on the Healthier Choice Symbol Programme, Healthy Chef and Diet Tracker mobile applications. Next, participants will be brought to a Healthier Hawker Centre (YuHua Hawker Centre) to experience how hawker dishes can be made healthier and cheaper as well as how the calories of dishes are made known to the public.

Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) is the first public restructured hospital to open in Singapore in 10 years. This modern 550-bed regional hospital offers a comprehensive range of medical services and specialist care. . Managed by Alexandra Health, KTPH marks the beginning of the cluster’s plans to build an integrated healthcare hub, providing high quality and affordable healthcare to the community in the northern region of Singapore. Future plans for the cluster include the establishment of a new community hospital and a medical centre.

KTPH’s vision is to “help our people live a long, healthy life and support them with thoughtful, dignified care to the end”. Its mission is to “provide good quality, affordable and hassle-free healthcare with science, love and wisdom”. KTPH is also the first internationally-recognised Health Promoting Hospital (HPH) in Singapore under the WHO-Collaborating Centres for Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health Care.

As a HPH, health promotion at KTPH is holistically categorised under five tracks:

This tour will highlight how KTPH uses strategic visual tactics to convey health promoting messages to the public (i.e. calorie counting at cafeteria, IPTV messaging, wall murals, etc)In addition, it will acquaint you with the different initiatives that are being conducted to promote holistic healthcare.

Being a newly built hospital, KTPH has the advantage of furthering our health promoting message through place-making and environmental design. The physical design of KTPH is firmly grounded in its green and energy efficient design. Studies have shown that patients recover faster in a green and healing environment. It is for this reason that KTPH is built as a “hospital in a garden” and a “garden in a hospital”, with vast areas of the hospital devoted to greenery. Sustainable development and the preservation of biodiversity are also important components of KTPH’s environmental philosophy. The tour will also identify initiatives that promote these efforts including urban farming on the rooftop garden , creation of ecosystems to for biodiversity, and green practices to sustain a healthy workplace.