Promoting the "Health Promotion Project" to Create a Healthy Mokpo City

Operation of Visiting Health Senior Centers and Daily Walking Practice Challenges

[Mokpo=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Jeong Seunghyun] The Jeonnam Mokpo City Health Center is actively promoting the full resumption of health promotion projects that were temporarily suspended to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

According to the health center on the 15th, projects that were reduced to non-face-to-face operations following the lifting of social distancing measures are being carried out, including ▲Visiting Health Senior Centers ▲Walking Practice Challenge in Daily Life (WalkOn) ▲Hypertension and Diabetes Health Classes linked with Community Sports Classes.

The health center operates the ‘Visiting Health Senior Centers’ program, composed of 15 members in 6 teams including nurses and exercise prescription specialists, visiting senior centers mainly used by the COVID-19 vulnerable elderly to provide basic health checkups and health consultations along with education on daily quarantine rules for safe use.

Additionally, to promote walking exercise in daily life recovery, the ‘Walking Practice Challenge in Daily Life’ using the WalkOn app will be operated until October. This challenge is a resident-participation health walking project with a goal of walking 200,000 steps per month (up to 10,000 steps per day recognized).

The health center operated the WalkOn walking challenge twice in 2020, with about 2,500 participants walking 250,000 steps.

The hypertension and diabetes health classes provide basic checkups and health consultations for participants of the Hae-Dalmaji Community Sports Class and the general public.

A health center official said, “We hope many citizens participate in the health promotion projects to regain vitality in their exhausted daily lives,” and added, “We will seek various projects for health promotion.”

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