| Apart from water sanitation, potable water supply, we should emphasised the general public health drive, if we really love this city and the inhabitants.
I think if there is any important point to promote health. The simplest thing will be for any Health committee can do is banning the smoking in all public places. There is a good example for years now, no smoking in the buses, train, or subway. If we took what happened in Singapore, the business establishment like Restaurant, Karaoke etc do not suffer from business losses because they banned smoking. Also I would like to see more public pressure to reinforce the drive to ban smoking in China not only Shanghai. 64% male smoke, and in today Shanghai Daily, boys start smoking since at school. The remaining of the society is a passive smoker and I am quite sure that many suffer quietly because of this. Those suffered real problem should consider taking the case to the court for legal redressing. And this is something that had to be given a standing ovation: The local government of Luwan District held a non-smoking movement on Huahai Road M. Let us together make Shanghai a civil place, a civil society with healthy mind body and soul. If Singapore can do it why not us? Here is a clip from today's Shanghai Daily for your reading, at least this is a start. Published on ShanghaiDaily.com (http://www.shanghaidaily.com/) http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2005/11/21/216275/Promotion team for health.htm Promotion team for health Created: 2005-11-21 CST, Updated: 2005-11-21 CST THE city announced the creation of the Shanghai Committee for Health Promotion over the weekend, to coordinate measures to build Shanghai into a "Healthy City." The committee is the first governmental organization of its type in China. The announcement was made at the International Forum on Healthy Cities, which opened yesterday in Shanghai. More than 400 government officials, WHO representatives, medical experts and ecologists are expected to take part in the three-day meeting. The concept of a "Healthy City" was proposed by the World Health Organization in the 1980s to make urban areas places where living conditions promote good health and quality of life through improving physical and social environments and expanding community resources. About 1,200 cities worldwide are involved in the program, including about 100 from developing countries. Shanghai is the first in China to pledge to become a "Healthy City" and the results from its first three years (2003-2005) of efforts have achieved some success, officials said. "Healthy City provides a concept that prevention is the key for modern medical services. Healthy environment, qualified health protection and effective education are important to promote public health and social development," said China's Minister of Health Gao Qiang. "An efficient health network under the program is also essential for controlling diseases, such as the present bird-flu campaign." Gao said, in addition to developed cities like Shanghai, China as a whole has improved health services since the 1950s by building some 300,000 medical facilities. Foreign experts hailed Shanghai's achievements, while claiming there are still many challenges ahead. "Shanghai should put more emphasis on building an energy-saving city, as the demands on resources are increasing along with the soaring economy and enlarged population," said Wilfried Kreisel, director of the WHO Kobe Center. Copyright © 2001-2005 Shanghai Daily Company |
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