SCOPH (Standing Committee on Public Health)
SCOPH was established in 1952 by medical students of International Federation of Medical Student Associations. SCOPH aims to develop the ability to cooperate and explore idea of public health related issue including global health issue, health regulation and activity that is related with education and promotion of health. With a proper health education to all elements of society, we hope health problem in community, including heart disease, vascular disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Cancer, Smoking and Alcoholism, will be decreased. SCOPH, led by NPO (National Public Health Officer), is engaged in the field of public health, community development, and many other public health issues such as social determinants on health, noncommunicable diseases, universal health care (health financing), and infectious disease. The scope of SCOPH is quiet broad. SCOPH works in primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary prevention. We believe that preventive medicine is better than curative one.
Goals: to improve awareness and knowledge of the community about public health to trigger Indonesian medical students‘ awareness about public health related issues to facilitate Indonesian medical students‘ activity in public health to provide opportunities for medical student’s to be involved in a real work concerning public health to create programmes (of public health) that are fit with Indonesia‘s current conditions and needs. to cooperate and to build partnership with governmental organization and/or non-governmental organization that
Activities Indonesia Disease Today IDT is a community based project where we reach out to the social determinants on health through society based. IDT was started In 2012, with Dengue Fever as chosen theme and will continue every year with different theme depends on community's epidemic. The participant will have lectures about the related theme, a “live in” to analyze the community life style and define the factors that play roles in causing the disease. Then they discussed the possible solution to the existing problem or the prevention. The project was closed with charity event.
Center for Indonesian Medical Students’ Activities www.cimsa.or.id
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