11th Design & Health World Congress & Exhibition 2015
Introduction
Designing a healthy society for the 21st century
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Organised by the International Academy for Design & Health. With the support of Architectural Services Department, Housing Department and Department of Health of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Hospital Authority. Supported by leading academic institutions and healthcare industries worldwide, with participation
of ministries of health from South Africa, Vietnam and Turkey. Our 11th World Congress comes to Hong Kong with a cutting-edge scientific programme that will help to underpin a salutogenic healthy society for the 21st century.
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to participate in the 11th World Congress on Design & Health (WCDH 2015) from 15-19 July 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Hong Kong Kowloon East.
The congress will start already on 15 July with a very exciting precongress programme organised by the Architectural Services Department, with the participation of Department of Health and Hospital Authority and other distinguished speakers, on the challenges of health infrastructure in Hong Kong.
The Scientific programme will open with a welcome speech by Dr KO Wing-man, Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health, on 16 July. Keynote speakers will present the most innovative research findings in the field of design and health and the role of health infrastructure to promote health and wellbeing.
A ministerial panel discussion concludes the Congress, with the participation of regional ministers of health, and the South African Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
The Congress host city, Hong Kong, is a multicultural metropolis with limited space. This has resulted in the city becoming the world’s most vertical city and a leading centre for architecture. Hong Kong also has one of the longest life expectancies of any country in the world. China has one of the longest recorded histories of the practice of medicine of any civilization, with methods and theories dating back more than 2,000 years in a unique system of medical theory embracing holistic approaches to disease prevention and health preservation that are complementary to modern salutogenic approaches.