Dr. Seyed Hassan Tabatabaei Nejad, Chairman of the Asian Council on Health and Education from Iran, moderated the breakout session on health and education, which featured three panelists. […]
Dr. Seyed Hassan Tabatabaei Nejad, Chairman of the Asian Council on Health and Education from Iran, moderated the breakout session on health and education, which featured three panelists. […]
Ms. Elizabeth Wong, Writer, Former Director of Social Welfare and Former Secretary for Health and Welfare of Hong Kong SAR, shared her thoughts on health and education. She defined health as a state of social, mental and physical well-being which correlates with personal satisfaction. According to her, the key determinants of health are social, economic, physical, lifestyle, and behavioral environments , and that the key factors related to health are genetics, culture, education and biomedical factors. On the other hand, she defined education as the process of learning to gain knowledge, skills, values, and beliefs. It is transferred through story telling, discussion, formal teaching, training, and research. Ms. Wong concluded her presentation by saying that health and education are interlinked; one cannot exist without the other. One’s health is not only linked to ones’ own education but the education of other people on whom one depends to survive.
Ms. Rossana Llenado, President of AHEAD Online from the Philippines, talked about how she started her work in the field of education, what motivated her to go into this field, what were the challenges she encountered along the way and how she overcame them, why she thinks education is vital for the economic development of a nation, and how she foresees the business of education will develop in the future (e.g., online tutorials). She also outlined some of the activities undertaken by her company to promote education in the country – e.g., review programs for college and professional exams, business English program for executives, training for teachers and employees, among others. She also cited some of the competitive advantages of the Philippines in the filed of education – e.g. good teachers which are in demand all over the world; the friendly, happy and caring nature of the Filipinos.
Mr. Mahmood Rumjahn, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MnS Music from Hong Kong, examined strategies for implementing regional cooperation in education, taking into account the not only the cultural and religious characteristics across countries but also the differences in their levels of economic development.
