Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2007

'Health is not only about preventing and treating illnesses, but more importantly, promoting healthy practices and life skills.' Prof. Jack C.Y. Cheng Towards a Healthy University The University has a population of over 20,000. Ensuring the physical and emotional health of all these individuals is a stupendous undertaking. While CUHK members can have their cold or sprained ankle treated at the campus clinic or at designated clinics off campus, the University also empowers them, through health promotion, to improve their own health. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health. 'The value of health promotion is increasingly being recognized by the medical field and by governments. There has been a trend to take health from the hospital into the community. It is both effective and cost-effective in reducing the causes of illness and in mitigating the social and economic impact of diseases,' observes Pro-Vice-Chancellor Prof. Jack C.Y. Cheng, chairman of the Committee on Health Promotion and Protection (CHPP) and member of the Advisory Committee on Health Promotion and Protection (ACHPP). 8 Chinese University Bulletin