Goheung-gun Public Health Center Receives Excellence Award for Integrated Health Promotion Project Two Years in a Row

Published 15 Dec.2021 11:12(KST)

13 Health Fields, Business Promotion with Mixed Non-Face-to-Face and Limited Face-to-Face, High Evaluation

Goheung-gun Public Health Center Receives Excellence Award for Integrated Health Promotion Project Two Years in a Row

[Goheung=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Shim Jeong-woo] Jeollanam-do Goheung-gun (Governor Song Gwi-geun) announced on the 15th that it was selected as an excellent institution among 22 cities and counties in Jeollanam-do at the Jeollanam-do Integrated Health Promotion Project Performance Conference (non-face-to-face).

The Integrated Health Promotion Project is a project that plans and promotes 13 health areas such as physical activity, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease management, smoking cessation, alcohol moderation, nutrition, obesity, and oral health according to local health issues, regional characteristics, and resident demands.

The reason Goheung-gun was evaluated as an excellent institution is that despite difficulties in project implementation due to restrictions on face-to-face activities caused by the spread of the COVID-19 infectious disease, it received high scores by changing the project implementation method to non-face-to-face, limited face-to-face, and blended approaches.

Efforts to solve local health problems stood out through cooperation and linkage with local community organizations, such as operating life-cycle-based exercise programs anticipating the decrease in physical activity due to the infectious disease outbreak, the Nutrition Plus Project to improve nutrition for low-income mothers and reduce anemia rates in infants, youth smoking prevention education, and non-face-to-face smoking cessation clinics.

In addition, the project was highly evaluated for smoothly carrying out various programs with minimal face-to-face contact and through SNS and telephone counseling, responding appropriately to social distancing stages.

A county official said, “We will continue to develop various programs that meet social changes such as new infectious disease outbreaks and resident demands, activate online communication, and provide high-quality health promotion services.”