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THE MALAYSIAN HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION INITIATIVE
The Cabinet
of Ministers has decided in August 2002 to establish a Malaysian Health Promotion
Foundation to provide funding for health promotion activities and to replace
sponsorship of sport and cultural activities by tobacco companies. The Foundation
will be a statutory body established under an Act of Parliament. It will be
governed by an independent Board consisting of representatives from relevant
Ministries, NGOs, and professionals who possess expertise relevant to health
promotion. The establishment of the Foundation is part of a package of measures
to strengthen tobacco control and to promote health. The objectives of the Foundation are as follows:
- To develop the capacity
of organizations including health related and community based, to plan and
implement health promoting activities for the benefit of the community,
with a particular focus on youth.
- To develop and support
multi-strategy programmes that promote and support healthy lifestyles and
healthy environments through various settings and sectors.
- To develop and support
a programme to improve population health by preventing, reducing or stopping
the use of tobacco products.
- To fund research relevant
to health promotion.
- To fund and support
sporting, recreational and cultural organizations to promote healthy lifestyles
and healthy environments.
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