Integrated Health Promotion

Dr Tan Weng Mooi​

Head (Integrated Health Promotion)
Director

The InHealth programme focuses on novel strategies to a) improve health, b) promote and sustain behaviour change and c) prevent the onset and progression of disease amongst the population.

The InHealth team works closely with government, community and private sectors to embed ‘health in all policies’ and shape the socio-environmental determinants of health. It aims to contribute to a healthy Singapore, where community norms are shifted and every individual is able to achieve and sustain physical, mental and social well-being.

A Precinct Approach to Health Promotion

InHealth has piloted a Healthy Precinct Framework which aims to coordinate, align and guide non-health agencies towards creating desirable health conditions in their scope of work.

MOHT also spearheads the Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI) with the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Its goal is to mould the NUS and NTU cohorts of 2025 to be graduates who will live healthily for life, by shaping their attitudes, norms and values. The HCI also aims to foster a deeper integration for universities to co-develop, test and measure the effects of health-promoting initiatives within their campuses.

Empowering communities to improve their health and wellbeing

InHealth’s Digital Engagement Tool (DET) empowers community leaders to gain a deeper ground sensing of their precinct’s health behaviours and socio-environmental determinants. Through community ownership, it encourages community leaders to co-create desirable local neighbourhoods and conditions to promote healthy living behaviours among their residents.

Another effort on mobilising the community to improve their own health and wellbeing is Movements for Health (M4H). M4H aims to catalyse community movements through the cultivation of movement builders and supporting an enabling ecosystem. Through these, we seek to leverage on and strengthen social networks to address the socio-environmental determinants of health.

Partners:

• Building and Construction Authority

• Centre for Liveable Cities

• DesignSingapore Council

• Housing Development Board

• Health Promotion Board

• Institute of Mental Health

• Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth

• Ministry of Social and Family Development

• National Council of Social Service

• National University of Singapore

• National University Health System

• National Parks Board

• National Youth Council

• Nanyang Technological University

• SingHealth

• Sport Singapore

• Urban Redevelopment Authority​

Current Initiatives:

• Creation of solutions that will nudge healthy behaviours

• Development of methodologies and toolkits to enable scaling of efforts

• Development of digital tools to support self-assessment and management of mental wellbeing