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d. IMFree Programme (Anti-Smoking Programme at the Primary School)
IMFree is an educational anti-smoking programme among primary school children. The program is a
joint effort between the Ministry of Health Malaysia and the Ministry of Education Malaysia with the
aim of achieving a non-smoking generation by 2025. The official launching of the IMFree Program
was held on 5 October 2017 at Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Pinang, Penang, by the YB Deputy
Minister of Education 1 and YB Deputy Minister of Health. Up to 2017, there were 350 primary schools
implemented the IMfree Programme nationwide (Image 17).

Image 17
Fagestrom Test by YB Dato ‘Seri Dr. Hilmi Bin Haji Yahaya, Deputy Minister of Health

Source: Population Wellbeing Section, Health Education Divisionm
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7. The Community Health Promotion Centre (CHPC)
The Community Health Promotion Center is a community facility that provides comprehensive, intensive
and organised health promotion services. It focuses on improving the knowledge and practice of healthy
lifestyle among the local communities. To date, there are 18 CHPC throughout the country.

As a proactive step, the Health Education Division has taken the opportunity to develop health
promotion services in the community through the establishment of Community Health Promotion
Center at the Urban Transformation Centre (UTC). This government Initiative coincides with
the Blue Ocean Strategy introduced to improve service quality through strategic collaboration
between Government agencies and the private sector. UTC Community Health Promotion Center
is operated by several skilled volunteers in the related field and are supervised by the Health
Education Officer. Programmes related healthy lifestyle skills training are provided on a scheduled
and periodic basis. This UTC Community Health Promotion Center complements the Community
Transformation Programme in ensuring the Government’s services, initiatives and programs can
maximise benefits to the people in line with the goals outlined in the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) (Image 18).

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