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Diabetes Hongkong 香港糖尿聯會
http://www.diabetes-hk.org/
Developed by Diabetes Hongkong, the website has abundant patient education
materials such as video show, newsletter, diet advice and basic facts
about Diabetes. Diabetic patients will benefit from this website with
the general information on diabetes as well as dieting advice. Family
physicians may be interested in the complication screening programme
offered by the Diabetes HK centre which is free of charge for public
housing residents, and those who are on public assistance. The screening
includes checking of eyes (retinography), BMI, urine protein, feet and
blood pressure check.
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Caritas Family Service 香港明愛家庭服務
http://family.caritas.org.hk
The website outlines the all-rounded family services offered by the
organization, which ranges from family counselling, school social work,
rehabilitative service for drug abusers and the emotionally disturbed.
Referral information are also available. Family physicians may like
to know more about the services available which could be useful in crisis
intervention of their patients or family members.
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Heep Hong Society 協康會
http://www.heephong.org/c_overview.htm
The website gives a clear accounts of the mission of Heep Hong Society
in providing early education and training services to children with
special needs. A rundown of the different types of children centres
run by the Society are described in the website. It would be useful
for the parents of these children to know of the extended service of
the Society designed to strengthen parents' competence in taking care
of their children. This includes parent resources centre where parent
support groups, resource library, seminars, workshop and professional
advices are available.
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Children's Cancer Foundation
兒童癌病基金
http://www.ccf.org.hk/
The website covers the range of services the Foundation is offering
towards the physical and mental betterment of cancer child patients.
It would be nice for parents of cancer kids to know of the services
which included family counselling services, financial assistance services,
educational, training and rehabilitation services to patients and their
family. General information on childhood cancer is also available at
the website.
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Mental Health Association of Hong Kong 香港心理衛生會
http://www.mhahk.org.hk/
The website gives an account of the services and activities offered
by the Association, namely ex-mentally ill persons, mentally handicapped
people and disabled persons. The services such as halfway houses, special
schools, day activity centre, hostels, shelter workshop are outlined
for references. It would be very useful for parents of the mentally
ill to be aware of such services, and how these resources could be useful
to their family members.
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The Hong Kong Anti-cancer Society
香港防癌會
http://www.hkacs.org.hk/
Abundant patient information is available in this website on cancer
conditions, its prevention, statistics and latest research news on different
cancer conditions. Materials are presented in different formats like
quizzes, online games, frequently asked questions to make the website
particularly interesting and useful to cancer patients and their families.
Referral and contact information of various patient support groups available
are listed for reference.
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Other local resources that may be of interest to family
physicians:
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The Spastics Association of Hong Kong 香港痙攣患者
http://www.spastic.org.hk/
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Hong Kong Alzheimer's Disease & Brain Failure Association
香港老年癡呆症協會
http://www.hkada.org.hk/index.htm
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Hong Kong AIDS Foundation
香港愛滋病基金會
http://www.aids.org.hk/
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Society for the Welfare of the Autistic Persons
自閉症人士福利促進會
http://www.swap.org.hk/
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The Hong Kong Liver Foundation
香港肝壽基金
http://www.liverfound.org.hk/
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