In support of the District Health Centre (DHC) initiative championed by the Food and Health Bureau, the Society operated “DHC Express” in Central & Western, Eastern and Shatin. The three centres commenced operation in the end of October 2021.
“DHC Express” will provide prevention-oriented healthcare services ranging from:
Through encouraging the public to maintain a healthy lifestyle and participate in health risk assessments on regular basis, the Centre aims to prevent diabetes, high blood pressure and lipid levels, or alleviate suboptimal health status, such as sleeping disorders and chronic pain.
We hope to take this opportunity to promote community-based health management services and foster medical-social collaboration and private-public partnership. By strengthening the network of different primary healthcare service providers in the community, a prevention-focused primary healthcare system can be developed and becomes the foundation of health management.
There are three levels of prevention in primary health care. Primary prevention, the first level, includes health promotion and education. It will enhance the awareness of self-care healthy living and disease prevention in the community.
Secondary Prevention, the second level, is to encourage people in need to facilitate early identification of health problems, such as diabetes and hypertension, by health risk factor assessments and screening, which will lead to follow-up measures and treatments.
Tertiary prevention, the third level, includes chronic illness management. We aim to help people with diabetes and hypertension gain better control over the illnesses, as well as people with musculoskeletal disorders to slow down progression of illnesses and frailty.
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