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Healthier choices.
A healthier Jamaica.
The Health Promotion & Education Unit works with individuals, communities, schools, workplaces, health services and partners to make healthy choices easier, practical and sustainable.
Health is shaped by the choices we make and by the places where we live, learn, work and connect. The Health Promotion & Education Unit of the Ministry of Health & Wellness helps to create the knowledge, skills, partnerships and supportive environments that enable Jamaicans to protect and improve their health.
HPE works across the life course to support healthier living through:
MOVE MORE
Promoting regular physical activity and active living.
EAT WELL
Encouraging healthy eating and good nutrition.
KNOW YOUR HEALTH
Supporting routine and age-appropriate health checks and stronger health literacy.
Discover HPE activities, Jamaica Moves events, national health observances, training sessions and partner activities.
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Recent Stories
Evening Moves Lights Up the Square
As the light went down, the square filled. Instructors led an hour of low-impact dance fitness set to a live selector, with the front rows given over to first-timers who had never joined a class before. By the second track the space between the benches had disappeared. Evening Moves runs on a simple premise: the biggest barrier to physical activity is rarely willingness. It is time, cost, transport, childcare, and the quiet…
Record Team Turnout at the Jamaica Moves 5K
Workplace teams made up the largest share of entries this year, with several organisations fielding first-time…
Never Too Late to Start Moving
Weekly sessions designed for older adults are drawing steady numbers, built around movements that improve balance…
Corporate Wellness Challenge Crowns Its Winners
The eighth staging of the Challenge closed with awards across every category, including the older adult…
Watch & Listen
Nature hike to Renu’s Attraction, Stony Hill
Challenge teams take to the trails on a nature hike at Renu’s Attraction in Stony Hill.
