Adolescent Health

The two main programs on adolescent health organized by the Ministry of Health are:

• PROSTAR
• Program Doktor Muda

PROSTAR 

This is a program which educates teenagers about HIV/AIDS as an effort to prevent its incidence among youngsters.

Kota Setar district is very active in PROSTAR.

PROSTAR stands for Program Sihat untuk Remaja. It was formerly known as Program Sihat Tanpa AIDS untuk Remaja.

The program was established by Ministry of Health, Malaysia with the support from various agencies.

The concept of PROSTAR is " From Youth, Through Youth, For Youth". Peer educators will promote healthy lifestyles among youth.

Objectives of PROSTAR

a) To increase awareness & knowledge on healthy lifestyles

b) To inculcate positive attitudes on healthy lifestyles practices

c) To encourage youth to adopt healthy lifestyles & avoid health

     risk behaviours

c) To train peer educators that can influence other youth to practice healthy lifestyles

d) To encourage volunteerism among youth that can eventually

     provide social support for other youth

Target Groups

Aged between 13 to 25 years old including:

• School students
• School leavers
• High risk group or troubled youth who have disciplinary problems, substance abusers, runaways & other high risk behaviours
• Marginalized group such as sex workers, homosexual & transsexual

Target Behaviors

• Smoking
• Using drugs
• Having multiple partners & unprotected sexual relationship
• Anti social behaviours

Recommended Behaviors


Healthy lifestyles practices such as:

• No smoking
• No alcohol
• Healthy minds
• Engage in physical activities
• Healthy eating

~ Pamphlets on PROSTAR ~

~ Logbook for Students participating in PROSTAR ~

Program Doktor Muda (Young Doctors Program)

Young doctors are a group of students; especially primary school students that have been trained in relevant aspects of health so that they can be an agent to promote good health knowledge and practices to their peers and family members

General Objective

To empower the student with health knowledge and skills in order to improve their own health and their peer’s health.

Specific Objectives

1. To facilitate the students, their peers and family members towards the adoption of healthy lifestyle
2. To develop the student as a role model and guide towards the adoption of healthy lifestyle
3. To encourage the student to help the health staff and teachers in organizing health activities in their school
4. To strengthen the school’s effort in improving the health of the students
5. Encourage parents/ guardian to give proper attention to the student’s health
6. Strengthening the collaboration between the Education and MOH Department in an effort to encourage good health practices among the students

Activities

• Promoting the adoption of healthy lifestyle
• Helping the school to promote a clean, healthy and safe environment
• Helping health staff and teachers in organizing health activities in their school
• Inform the school authorities of the occurrence of any disease / health problems
• Treat simple injury

~ Constitution book for members of Young Doctors Program ~

For further details, log on to:
http://www.drmuda.gov.my/drmuda.*

by Tineshwary Tannimalai