政策專題研究系列
Policy Research Series
諮詢文件六：全民健康 Consultation Paper 6: Health for All
撮要
全民健康
1. 香港雖已晉身先進國家，卻未能締造可供市民健康生活的環境及生活條件。為此，香港應推展運動，促進全民健康，帶給市民更健康的體質。
健康的社區
2. 香港應致力創造潔淨的社區環境，首要工作是採取措施,讓市民呼吸新鮮潔淨的空氣：
�� 減少汽車排放物
�� 創造無「二手煙」的社區
3. 改善社區設施，讓市民在社區內能享有便利、多元化的康樂體育設施。
4. 改善社區環境，防止傳染病在社區漫延。
5. 進行社區健康評估，各社區以此作為制訂其工作策略,決定優先次序的基礎。
健康的工作環境
6. 致力改善工業安全及職業健康，包括
�� 加強執法，要求僱主嚴格遵守安全管理制度
�� 針對白領職位的職業健康，進行調查，制訂標準及方案，幫助僱主及僱員改善工作地點的健康措施。
不論長幼 同享健康
健康的長者
7. 現時公共醫療體系收費雖不算昂貴，但對長者，醫療開支仍然是重大開支。政府應為所有使用公共醫療服務的長者提供半價優惠。
8. 針對公立門診及專科服務不足，輪候時間漫長，政府除增加資源，改善服務，同時必須建立完善的基層醫療系統，及早介入預防及治療疾病。
9. 針對長者口腔毛病嚴重的問題，政府應提供資源，津貼長者的牙醫服務。
10. 由於老年抑鬱及自殺率高企，行政當局在城市規劃、房屋設計等各方面，作出改善，讓在社區中生活的長者可與區內其他人士保持聯繫，相互支援。同時應加強護老者支援服務，研究設立護老者津貼及優惠，以免長者因缺乏社區支援及照顧而抑鬱自殺。
健康的新一代
11.年輕一代對體重及健康體態的關注及誤解，若處理不善，對他們日後的健康會帶來長遠的影響。針對這個問題，應透過學校、傳播媒介，加強宣傳教育，為青少年提供關於體態健康、減肥、健康飲食及生活習慣的資訊及活動，建立健康的生活及飲食習慣。
Abstract
1. Hong Kong is unable to provide her citizen with an environment to live a healthy life, in spite of the high level of economic development achieved nowadays. A movement of Health for All should be launched to bring people with better health.
Healthy Communities
2. We should
work for clean communities. The task of the top priority is to adopt measures
to improve air quality, so that people here have fresh and clean air.
We should
�� reduce vehicle emission, and
�� prohibit “second-hand smoking”.
3. We should improve community facilities, so that people can use sports and recreational facilities in the community with convenience and variety.
4. We should improve the community environment, so as to prevent infectious diseases from spreading.
5. We should conduct community health assessment, so that each community can base on the assessment results to develop its strategy and decide the working priority.
Healthy Working Environments
6. We should pay efforts to improve industrial safety
and occupational health, includes:
�� Enhancing law enforcement and demanded employers to follow the safety
management system; and
�� Facilitating employers and employees to improve health measures in work
sites, by conducting survey, making indicators and providing options on
occupational health of the ‘white collar’.
Health for the Young and the Old
Healthy Aged
7. Although the public health sector charged medical
fees at a low level, most aged people spend a large part of their expenditures
on medical services. For aged persons using public medical services, the
government should provide half-fee benefits.
8. The shortages of resources resulted in long waiting time in the general out-patient clinics and specialist out-patient clinics. In addition to providing more resources and improving services, the government should establish a comprehensive primary medical system, so as to provided early intervention for disease prevention and treatment.
9. In view of the poor conditions of oral health among the aged, the government should provide resources to subsidize aged people for dental services.
10. In view of the high depression and suicide rates among the aged, the administration should seek improvements in town planning, building design and other aspects, so as to enable aged people to maintain communications and mutual supports with others in the community. Meanwhile, we should enhance supporting services to carers of the aged people, study on setting up a carers allowances system, so as to prevent the aged people from depression and suicide due to the lack of community supports.
Healthy Younger Generation
11. The younger generation concern with their weights
and body figures but lack of related health knowledge. Many of them are
under the risks of improper management, which may adversely affect their
health conditions in the long run. We should provide them with more information
and activities regarding fitness, diet, weight control and etc in schools
and mass media, in order to assist the younger people to develop more
healthy diet and life styles.
