Health Management and Social Care
-Understanding Health Knowledge for Promotion of Social Care
- Curriculum Highlights:
- To understand personal development, needs and social connectedness at different stages of life.
- To understand local and global health and social care settings
- To promote health, health care and social care in action
- Learning and Teaching Features
- Flipped Classroom
- Students watch a video arranged by the teacher at home for preparing a lesson, and then discuss it in class. Each group of students writes the results of the discussion on the blackboard, so that teachers and students can make more effective use of the classroom and increase the effectiveness of learning.
- Group Learning
- Students work together in small groups to complete reports, present them in class, and evaluate each other’s work, which enhances their judgement ability and increases the effectiveness of learning.
- Life-wide Learning
- Participation in different learning activities
- Students have the opportunity to learn about health & social care issues and acquire social appraisal skills through participating in learning activities of different social welfare organizations.
- To communicate with ethnic minorities and share the recovery journey by ex-mentally ill persons.
- Through visits to mental rehabilitation organizations, students can learn about how NGOs help people with mental disabilities and the work of the relevant industries, and also raise students’ awareness of their own mental health problems.
- Through visiting ethnic minority shops to exchange views with ethnic minorities
- Through exchanges with the ethnic minorities, students can learn about their cultural background and living customs, grasp the actual situation of living in Hong Kong, and explore their daily needs and the various difficulties they face.
- Visiting the CNBF Life Training Base (Drug Rehabilitation Centre)
- It is a rare opportunity for students to visit a drug rehabilitation centre in Hong Kong meeting the rehabilitated offenders in the centre. Apart from learning about the current drug rehabilitation services in Hong Kong, it is also a very good life education course.
- “The Chinese University of Hong Kong Jockey Club Mypoia Prevention Programme”
- The programme aims to raise community awareness of children’s eye health and to provide 30,000 Primary 1 to Primary 3 students (aged 6 to 8) and their families with free eye examinations and educational information on eye care. Our students participate in the programme as Hong Kong Children’s Eye Ambassadors, who are required to undergo training courses and learn about eye care, and assist healthcare professionals in conducting comprehensive eye examinations. They provide logistic support to the health care workers and work with the eye care workers, medical students and nursing students to make the programme run smoothly. Apart from learning about eye care, they also learn basic vision screening tests and how to operate the relevant equipment. In addition, they have the opportunity to act as eye care workers and assist in the eye examination of children, and learn how to get along with the children and improve their communication skills in order to make the whole examination smoother. The two-day service experience is both refreshing and invaluable to the students.
- Visiting sub-divided units to understand and care about the problem of poverty
- Students are led in small groups to visit households in sub-divided units to learn about the current poverty problem and how the government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) help the poor.
- Visiting the Elderly Resources Centre of the Housing Society▪
- To understand the needs of the elderly services and what new technologies are available for improving the elderly’s living.
