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professional bodies, industry and other key partners to oversee the framework's implementation. Common chronic non-communicable diseases are mostly associated with lifestyle. In this connection, working groups were set up under the steering committee to put forward recommendations on issues of diet and physical activity as well as alcohol misuse and injuries.
After careful review and in-depth discussion regarding the local situation on non-communicable diseases and the behavioural risk factors including unhealthy dietary habits, physical inactivity and overweight/obesity, and having regard to the health promotion activities conducted by various government departments, public bodies and NGOs, the Working Group on Diet and Physical Activity has drawn up an Action Plan to Promote Healthy Diet and Physical Activity Participation in Hong Kong (Action Plan). The official launch of the Action Plan was marked by a ceremony under the title 'Eat and Play Smart for Better Health - Get Set, GO!' on September 27, 2010. Relevant information is available on the websites of the DH and the Centre for Health Protection.
Meanwhile, the Centre for Health Protection continues to step up surveillance, prevention and control of non-communicable diseases through a scheme called the 'Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System' and other health surveys.
A Cancer Co-ordinating Committee regularly makes recommendations for prevention and control of cancer, which claimed more than 13 000 lives in Hong Kong in 2010. The committee assigned the Cancer Expert Working Group on Cancer Prevention and Screening to conduct discussions on the latest developments concerning breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon and colorectal cancer. The relevant recommendations on prevention and screening were made available on the website of the Centre for Health Protection in September 2010.
To reduce the mortality rate of cervical cancer victims, in 2004 the DH, together with other healthcare providers, launched a cervical screening programme to provide screening for women aged between 25 and 64. It also introduced a cervical screening information system to collect and analyse data on cervical smears. In 2010, about 108 000 women registered under the programme underwent cervical screening.
In order to enhance care for chronic disease patients, the HA launched a chronic disease management programme in selected HA general outpatient clinics in 2009. Services provided include risk assessment and management, with diabetes mellitus and hypertension patients as the major target groups. The HA also introduced six multi-disciplinary services on wound care, fall prevention, support of mental wellness, drug compliance, continence care and handling of chronic respiratory problems.
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