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Applications for Health Care and Promotion Fund invited

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The Food and Health Bureau is inviting non-profit-making organisations to submit grant applications for the Health Care and Promotion Fund (HCPF) to conduct non-research health promotion projects.

A spokesman for the bureau said today (April 29) that this was the 23rd application call for non-research health promotion projects that help people adopt healthier lifestyles by enhancing awareness, changing behaviour or creating an environment that supports good health practices.

"Priority for funding is given to grant applications targeting underprivileged groups who are at risk of ill health, and setting-based health promotion programmes such as those conducted in schools, workplaces, other community-based settings and primary care settings," the spokesman added.

Higher funding priorities will be accorded to the following thematic areas:

I. Tobacco control

* Empowering youth, women or high-pressure career workers to abstain from smoking
* Motivating smokers to cease smoking

II. Lifestyle, nutrition and physical activity

* Enhancing government initiatives toward healthy eating and regular physical exercise
* Empowering working population to adopt healthy eating and physical activity, especially at the workplace
* Equipping the younger generation to adopt healthy lifestyle practices, for example, avoiding unhealthy habits, dangerous sex, alcohol and drug misuse and maintaining healthy body mass index. In particular, promoting healthy eating and physical activities among young children

III. Mental well-being

* Promoting awareness of the importance of positive mental health, and early detection and treatment of mental health problems
* Equipping underprivileged groups with the knowledge and skills in stress management
* Reducing stigma associated with mental health problems

IV. Injury prevention

* Promoting sensible drinking (including preventing binge drinking) to reduce injury and other alcohol-related problems
* Engaging the community in reducing injury related to falls and transport accidents
* Preventing unintentional injuries in children

The closing date of applications is July 31, 2009. All applications will be subject to rigorous review by the Health Care and Promotion Fund Committee and its sub-committee, the Promotion Sub-committee, which comprises health care professionals and experts, individuals closely involved in community affairs, and government representatives.

Successful applicants may be awarded full or partial support normally not exceeding $300,000 on a one-off basis.

The HCPF was established by the Government in 1995 for the purpose of strengthening health promotion and disease prevention work. To date, a total of 164 health promotion projects have been supported.

Guidance notes and application forms (Application Form P for non-research health promotion projects) can be obtained from the Research Fund Secretariat, Food and Health Bureau, 18/F, Murray Building, Garden Road, Central, or the website at (www.fhb.gov.hk/grants). Enquiries can be made by fax at 3150 8993 or by email to rfs@fhb.gov.hk.



Ends/Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Issued at HKT 12:32

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