FIT & HEALTHY NATION

Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting mental and physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts. Public health may be considered as the structures and processes by which
the health of populations is understood, safeguarded, and promoted through the organized efforts of society. The population of Sri Lanka is currently experiencing many social and economic threats. Years since the pandemic coupled with life under severe stress and a trauma-ridden environment in Sri Lanka have brought depression and hopelessness, followed by general negligence towards health and increased risk behaviour.

✓ Describes the state of health of local people
✓ Enables the identification of the major risk factors and causes of ill health and
enables the identification of the actions needed to address these.
✓ Find measures to mitigate malnutrition
✓ Understand and learn the value of involving in sports and games
✓ Practice mindfulness and grow love towards one’s body through yoga

✓ Create awareness about the services provided at our camps and encourage
the community to utilize the services provided by other nearby health facilities
✓ Carry out prevention and treatment of people to reduce morbidity and mortality
✓ Conduct mass disease prevention and education via presenting documentaries
and medical sessions
✓ Screen for major conditions and severe health conditions, as well as treat
dental, eye, and mental health issues
✓ Combat malnutrition
✓ Find meaning in life and peace to the body via yoga
✓ Live a stress-free life with good practice of sports and games

✓ Develop physical talents to their maximum potential.
✓ Engage in competitive activities, while promoting sound health, safety, and
physical fitness.
✓ Learn to appropriately experience both success and failure in an educational
environment.
✓ Learn from experience that consequences follow the violation of a rule.
✓ educate communities on preventive care and nutritional diet.

a) A population that is in a dynamic state of physical, mental, and social wellbeing.
Positive health outcomes include being alive; functioning well mentally,
physically, and socially; and having a sense of well-being.
b) Eradicate negative outcomes including death, malnutrition, loss of function, and
lack of well-being.
c) A youth that realizes the value of sports and games and builds better health
routines with yoga.

We propose a few implementation strategies that can be employed to meet this project. Interviews or general discussions with stakeholders (patients, doctors, volunteers, and coaches) can be conducted. The beginning of each interview/ discussion will be unstructured to get as much information and opinions about the implementation of this project as possible, followed by a semi-structured part with questions about the implementation of the above health requirements for people and children of different ages. Other sources of information can include national strategies, internal notes, meeting minutes, annual reports, organization structure reports, etc. Thereby, initiating the project as a test run and observing the shortcomings for future improvements.
We propose a simple and practical approach to on-the-ground implementation that involves three essential strategies (people engagement, process mapping, and process improvement) with continuously iterative cycles across these elements during the lifespan of the project. In our experience with national implementation efforts, this approach has proven indispensable for aligning patients, operational leaders, and frontline staff at local sites.

• Ministry of Sports / Department of sports
• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Agrarian Development.
• Food Commissioner’s Department.
• National Food Promotion Board.
• Patients, community, pharmacies, doctors, nurses, and charities.

Short term

Blue Wing’s baby steps in its development objective are a healthier nation that contributes to its economic, social, mental, and spiritual development. The project is aligned with the following impact: a healthier nation is ensured with a more comprehensive system. The project will have the following outcome: children who are better in their states of health than they were before, adults and elderly with lesser percentages of common diseases like diabetes, heart arrest, high blood pressure, etc, and youth that have developed selfesteem, more confident and able to infuse new blood to a healthy generation.

Long term

These life-saving programs were run to provide ultimate relief to the public and children. Their medical needs were met by professionals. People who were unable to reach the best hospitals or expend that much to get the best & high-quality medical services were offered a lending hand. Ill health was a common risk factor that was a barrier to employment and thus, most of them could get back to work as their health was restored. Students’ health and fitness gradually improved paving the way for convenient studying. There was an increase in sports initiatives among the youth who seemed more healthy and fit. Patients with diabetes and hypertension had a clear understanding of healthy food habits and the importance of regular intake of medicine.

Social impact

There was some consistency in improved social outcomes, such as social interaction and acceptance, enhanced communication between health care professionals and their patients, community support, enabled e-learning, enhanced professional network, and
expedited health promotion.

Economic impact

Low admissions to hospitals, fewer medicine purchases, and infrastructure to run the health services and maintain them were much lessened in comparison to previous years. The reduction in morbidity and mortality was associated with successful health camps The health camps have also reduced the incidence of diseases and their associated treatments and healthcare costs. This potentially leads to economic growth, with less money spent owing to the costs averted through fewer medical tests, procedures, treatments, and less time off work by patients/parents.

Since the project is regarded as a pilot project in terms of fully uplifting better health conditions in Sri Lanka, this project will adopt a Result-based/Outcome Monitoring System (OMS) to generate data for annual project reporting. One main way is to implement partners from within the respective districts present their progress, share lessons learned, fine-tune their action plans, discuss problems and issues encountered during implementation, and come up with mitigation measures. Therefore, Blue Wings representatives and government staff must make it a point to attend meetings, as far as practical, to monitor progress activities in project districts. We envisage that partners from districts as well as network members will meet annually to review their actions within a year and then plan activities for the subsequent year. Noteworthy case studies from the field, broader lessons learned, identifying human interest stories, planning for publication, etc could be carried out.

This section outlines the monitoring, reporting, and evaluation mechanisms for the project. As indicated in the project proposal above, the importance of a having robust reporting mechanism for the progress of the project is good news. A government officer from a relevant field of health can pay a field visit to the relevant camp and telecast live TV programs to uplift the spirits of the public, documentaries can be created in relation to healthy food and lifestyle, providing tips for the best health habits, etc will help to implement the project on the ground. Hence, significant progress could be tracked as a project outcome.