📌Project 1:
Guidelines for Establishing Healthy Lifestyle and Culture for All
Conveners:
Professor Wen-Harn Pan, Academia Sinica
Abstract:
Obesity and other related chronic diseases are themost pressing public health problems among many countries worldwide. These are also topics of public interest. However, policy strategies to date have targeted individual responsibility and numeric assessment, with a narrower focus on “losing weight, dropping calories” as metrics to health. This approach is not only ineffective in the long run but also unfortunately overlooked by the population with normal body weight yet inadequate muscle mass, a condition known as hidden obesity. The Guidelines for Establishing Healthy Lifestyle and Culture for All overcomes this by approaching the situation on the basis of “healthy BMI range” and “healthy body composition.” The guidelines underscore that obesity prevention is not merely the responsibility of a few organizations. Instead, to realize the “health for all” vision laid out in the guidelines, everyone and every sector of the society, whether public or private, will need to take active roles in promoting a culture of health and health promotion.
📌Project 2:
Proposal on Dengue Prevention and Control Policy
Conveners:
Professor Ying-Chin Ko, China Medical University
Professor Hsin-Su Yu, National Health Research Institutes
Abstract:
Dengue fever is a rapidly spreading infectious disease. The global dengue epidemic has spread fast due to warming, transnational tourism, and urbanization. Taiwan has been fighting dengue fever for several decades. However, due to the joint efforts of the government and the people, Taiwan is no longer a large-scale epidemic area for dengue fever. Nevertheless, factors such as overseas migration have led the epidemic to recur in recent years. The NHRI Forum’s committee on dengue fever has expanded prevention and control measures among the various institutes and centers in NHRI and has successfully advocated that the central government set up a prevention and control unit. The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Centers for Disease Control adopted the recommendations from the forum’s dengue prevention policy research project. The forum committee was also one of the behind-thescenes prompters for the establishment of the National Mosquito-Borne Diseases Control Research Center at NHRI.
📌Project 3:
Proposal on Dengue Prevention and Control Policy
Conveners:
Professor Ying-Chin Ko, China Medical University
Professor Hsin-Su Yu, National Health Research Institutes
Abstract:
It is estimated that there are tens of millions of organic and inorganic substances in the world. Nearly 100,000 compounds are used as commercial products, many of which cause environmental issues and enter the ecological chain and the human body through various channels. Through advances in molecular toxicology and ultra-micro analysis, and through the development of new instruments and technologies, many safety issues have been uncovered. The NHRI Forum’s committee on “Strengthening Food Risk Assessment and Prevention Policy” explores approaches to handling potential unknowns, additives, international normative differences, risk-communication platforms, and food-safety scandals, in part by employing the structural concept of risk analysis. It has recommended the establishment of a central government food safety policy committee to reduce the occurrence of food-safety disputes and strengthen the government’s crisis-management capabilities to protect consumers’ health.
📌Project 4:
How Medical System Responds to Low-Birth Rate Society
Conveners:
Professor Ken N. Kuo, Taipei Medical University
Professor Mei-Hwei Chang, National Taiwan University Hospital
Professor Mei-Hwan Wu, National Taiwan University Hospital
📌Project 5:
Updated Recommendations and Realizable Goals of Physical Activity for Everyone in Taiwan: Overcoming Sustaining Barriers
Conveners:
Professor Chi-Pang Wen, National Health Research Institutes
Abstract:
Although the public has been generally aware for decades of the health benefits of leisure time physical activity, three quarters of adults in Taiwan fail to reap the benefits by meeting the current recommendation of 30 minutes per day of moderate-intensity exercise. Where exercise is concerned, there is a large gap between what people know they should do and how they behave. The New Physical Activity Guideline was a breakthrough for addressing the problem, based on evidence-based research. The new proposal of 15 minutes of exercise per day took away most people’s excuses and facilitated the smooth adoption of the guideline. With the use of pictures and plain language, the guideline is easy to read and absorb. It promotes the authors’ important new research findings, which were published in the Lancet (“Minimum amount of physical activity for reduced mortality and extended life expectancy: a prospective cohort study”) and have now been cited 1,200 times. Fifteen minutes of exercise per day can work wonders. The guideline is annotated with literature citations and supported by scientific evidence.
📌Project 6:
Healthcare for the Elderly: Coordination and Integration of Healthcare Service System
Conveners:
Professor Chung-Fu Lan, National Yang-Ming University
📌Project 7:
Education of Health Care Workforce for the 21 Century
Conveners:
Professor Andrew T. Huang, Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center
📌Project 8:
Exploring Social and Ethical Issues of Prenatal Screening and Genetic Diagnosis Technology
Conveners:
Professor Shio-Jean Lin, Chi Mei Medical Center
Abstract:
“The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the incidence of children with developmental delays to be 6 to 8%. Upon the amendment of Taiwan’s Child Welfare Law in 1993, early intervention for children with developmental delay became a major focus of child health and welfare services. Cities in Taiwan now have an established network for screening, detection, referral, evaluation, and intervention services. In order to improve the detection of and early help for children with developmental delays and to develop strategies for improving the effectiveness of screening, referral, and early intervention for childhood development delays, a Delphiquestionnaire/interview with stakeholders — including pediatricians, public health nurses, rehabilitation therapists, teachers, social workers, and community case managers — was conducted. As a result, multiple viewpoints about service systems, not only supporting but also critical, were identified and discussed. The results were developed into a book, Child Development Sustainability Recommendations. Policy-oriented recommendations were made to both the national government and local authorities on how to improve integration and coordination, lessen urban–rural resource distribution differences, integrate data, and find funding.