440 History
2005. Included for consultation were papers entitled 'Towards Better Health' (the Rainbow Document) in 1993, 'Improving Hong Kong's Health Care System: Why and For Whom?' (the Harvard Report) in 1999, 'Lifelong Investment in Health' in 2000-01 and 'Building a Healthy Tomorrow' in 2005.
Building on those initiatives, the Government put forward an additional document in 2008 entitled 'Your Health, Your Life', for a first round of discussion and consulted the public as well on a package of healthcare reform initiatives that included proposals for enhancing primary care, promoting public-private partnership in health care, developing an electronic health record sharing system, strengthening the public healthcare safety net; and introducing supplementary healthcare financing.
Based on the views advanced in that first round of discussion, the Government published in 2010 a document for a second round of discussion on healthcare reform proposals that included establishing a government-regulated, voluntary Health Protection Scheme to enhance the long-term sustainability of the healthcare system.
A comprehensive system of labour legislation has been developed to provide for employees' benefits, protection and compensation, as well as for their occupational safety and health. Free employment services are offered to help both job-seekers and employers. The Employees Retraining Board provides quality training and retraining courses and services to those who are eligible, in particular to the unemployed and workers who are likely to be displaced by economic restructuring to enhance their employability and enable them to meet the demands of the changing labour market.