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representing about 38 per cent and 83 per cent respectively of the total in 2007. Most of the other expectant mothers and newborns sought antenatal services from the private sector.
The government-subvented Family Planning Association (FPA) of Hong Kong offers comprehensive services and health information on sexual and reproductive health treatment and counselling through its various clinics, youth health care centres, women's clubs, and libraries. In 2007, the subvention amounted to $29.2 million and over 110 000 clients were served. A Breast Clinic has also been set up.
Student Health
For primary and secondary school students, the Department of Health offers health assessment, health education and individual health counselling with emphasis. on health promotion and disease prevention through its 12 student health service centres and three special assessment centres. A total of 765 779 students between the age of six and 19 received the services in the 2006-07 school year.
To further safeguard students' health, school health inspectors pay regular visits. to schools to check on their environmental hygiene and sanitation standards, while health officers and nurses provide advice on the control of communicable diseases. Teams from the Department of Health pay annual visits to primary schools to vaccinate students against communicable diseases.
Elderly Health
The Department of Health has set up 18 elderly health centres and 18 visiting health teams to enhance primary health care for the elderly, improve their ability to care for themselves, encourage healthy living and strengthen family support to minimise illness and disability of their elders. The elderly health centres provide people aged 65 or above with comprehensive primary healthcare services which include health assessments, physical check-ups, counselling, curative treatment, and health education. The 18 visiting health teams conduct health promotion activities for the elderly and provide training for carers to enhance their health knowledge and skill in caring for the elderly. In 2007, the elderly health centres recorded 38 174 enrolments and 182 497 attendances for health assessment and medical consultation, while the visiting health teams made 275 132 client contacts.
Community Health
In line with the world trend of focusing more on developing ambulatory and community care programmes, the allocation of public funding for public hospital services has been changing from the institution-based approach to a population- based approach to encourage the mobilisation of resources from institutions to community settings. By so doing, the Hospital Authority has enhanced its related services to minimise the needs for inpatient services by the public and facilitated patients' rehabilitation in the community. In 2007, the Hospital Authority continued to step up training for family physicians, community paediatricians, community physicians, general practitioners and community-allied health practitioners to support the development and provision of the community mode of health care. To provide outreach medical, nursing and allied health services for the rehabilitation of