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postgraduate Chinese medicine development and training. The pilot programme covers stroke, lower back pain, shoulder and neck pain and cancer palliative care, and is available at seven public hospitals. From March 2020, ICWM inpatient services will become cheaper as the government increases resources to lower the additional daily fee paid by patients from $200 to $120.

Health Promotion

Healthy Lifestyle

The Department of Health's Health Promotion Branch formulates and implements strategies and measures to promote healthy eating, regular physical activity and mental wellness. The branch also updates information and health advice on infectious diseases, and produces materials in various languages to raise awareness among ethnic minorities of how to prevent communicable diseases and adopt a healthy lifestyle.

The department works with the Education Bureau to conduct campaigns such as [email protected] and [email protected], which respectively drew the participation of more than 650 kindergartens and child care centres, and over 490 primary schools, including special schools, in the 2018-19 school year. Another joint campaign with the bureau, the three- year Joyful@School launched in the 2016-17 school year, promotes the mental well-being of primary and secondary students. The department is also carrying out a mental health. promotion and public education initiative.

The Adolescent Health Programme promotes mental health and healthy use of the internet in over 300 secondary schools.

In 2019, the department launched the EatSmart Restaurant Star+ campaign as the enhanced version of [email protected] to encourage restaurants to provide a wider choice of healthy dishes. As at December, there were about 1,000 EatSmart restaurants.

The department works with community partners to organise the 'I'm So Smart' Community Health Promotion Programme, which aims to combat the growing problem of non- communicable diseases by promoting a healthy diet and regular physical activities. In 2019-20, the programme focused on reducing dietary salt intake and physical inactivity.

The department maintains close liaison with Healthy Cities projects, NGOs and other community partners and solicits their support to carry out health promotion activities, disseminate health information, alert the public to health threats and facilitate rapid implementation of preventive measures.

Joyful@Healthy Workplace is carried out jointly by the Department of Health, the Labour Department and the Occupational Safety and Health Council. As at December, the programme had drawn over 1,700 organisations involving more than 520,000 employees.

In November, the Department of Health launched the Mental Health Workplace Charter to foster employers' adoption of measures that would promote mental well-being, encourage

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