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Healthy University Rating System (HURS)
University : Siam University
Country : Thailand
Web Address : https://sustainability.siam.edu
HP 1 Health Literacy
[HP 1.1] Comprehensive Health Literacy Initiatives
| 1. Smoke-free posters and infographics displayed on campus – Annual Smoke-free Campaign |
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| Posters displayed on campus: students’ hand-made posters on the harms of smoking, and a smoke-free campaign board with materials |
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| Posters and banners displayed on campus at the smoke-free campaign of the Student Union and the Faculties of Nursing and Pharmacy |
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| Infographics displayed on campus: “Siam University – a smoke-free university”; “Want to quit? Consult here”; “You can quit” with the national Quitline 1600 |
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| Infographics displayed on campus: quit smoking for a better future; harmful substances in cigarettes; health effects of smoking |
| 2. Health promotion events, printed materials and websites |
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| (Left) Poster of the 11th International Yoga Day, “Yoga for One Earth, One Health”, 19 June 2025, Siam University Sports Complex (Right) Organisers and participants |
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| More than 120 faculty members and students practise yoga, in collaboration with the Embassy of India (19 June 2025) |
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| International Day of Yoga 2026, Siam University Sport Complex, 19 June 2026 – event poster and about 100 students, staff and members of the public |
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| Siam Walk & Run 2025 (3.5 km), 5 April 2025 |
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| Launch of the national Kidney-Friendly University campaign of pharmacy faculties with the Thai Health Promotion Foundation, 19 August 2026 |
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| NODE Phasi Charoen website: health record book, “10 Healthy Menus”, “10 Exercise Methods” and health data of 16 communities |
| 3. Health knowledge through web-based channels |
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| “Osotsiam SU” YouTube channel of Osot Siam Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy: health videos, e.g. dyslipidaemia and “3 Or 2 Sor” healthy living to prevent chronic disease |
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| Osot Siam Pharmacy infographics: taking medicines before and after meals; using contraceptive pills correctly; influenza and vaccination for risk groups |
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| Infographics: painkillers; antibiotics and anti-inflammatory medicines are not the same |
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| Awareness of drink-spiking drugs; skin rashes and allergic reactions that should not be ignored |
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| “Siam Cares for Health”, Faculty of Medicine – health infographics on Facebook and TikTok, e.g. hepatitis A and Ebola prevention (Sustainability Report 2025–2026, p. 49) |
| 4. Health promotion and lifestyle training programmes |
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| Correct Use of Medicine workshop for 80 residents of Bang Khae Elderly Care Center 2: talk and learning station on painkillers (NSAIDs) and antibiotics |
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| Pharmacy lecturers and students with older participants and medicine-use materials (series of workshops, 25 August – 10 September 2025) |
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| Health education for village health volunteers (Aor Sor Mor), Phun Bamphen Community, 30 August 2025 |
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| (Left) Workshop poster, NCD risk reduction project of the Phasi Charoen Well-being Node, 20 September 2025 (Right) Community leaders |
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| Four learning stations – body-composition measurement, health media, project accounting, healthy cooking – and the “Tree of Problem” through which the communities chose NCD risk reduction |
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| Faculty of Nursing Elderly Club programmes: 23 June 2025, 19 January 2026 and 20 April 2026 (Building 12, 5th-floor seminar room) |
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| (Left) Programme of 24 August 2026 – low-impact, knee-friendly exercise and posture exercise (Centre, right) Health education and exercise for club members with nursing students and lecturers |
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| Elderly Club Thai New Year session, 20 April 2026: water blessing for elders, Thai dances and games organised by nursing students |
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| “Bright Youth, Aware of Tobacco Harms”, Nursing Student Club for a Smoke-free Thai Society: sessions on tobacco laws, second-hand smoke and Thai herbs that help smokers quit, 27 January 2024 |
| 5. Other innovative health literacy activities |
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| The Last Puff: (left) “Highly Commended”, Student Engagement, 2025 International Green Gown Awards (right) pharmacy students give smoking-cessation advice at Osot Siam Pharmacy |
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| Elderly Club health screening with individual advice: (left) programme of 29 June 2026 – screening and “4 Smart” healthy ageing (right) nursing students screen club members and give advice |
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| “Empowering for Sustainability: From Helpless to Wellness” – Finalist, 2025 International Green Gown Awards; “Tree of Hope” sessions with Suphatphiban residents |
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| Community learning and the communal organic garden – a training centre and safe food hub |
| 6. Additional health literacy activities |
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| Siam Safety & Healthy Week seminars, Program of Occupational Health and Safety, Faculty of Medicine (13 and 17 June 2024; 23 June 2025) |
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| Exhibition on safety and hygiene technology for hospital personnel and engineers |
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| Science and Technology Youth Camp #13, Faculty of Science: 45 secondary school students and teachers from 6 schools learn food technology and food safety (January 2025) |
| Health literacy activities at Siam University (Siam University, Thailand) |
Description:
Siam University runs a comprehensive range of health literacy initiatives that use several communication and learning approaches, so that students, staff and community members can find, understand and use health information for a healthier lifestyle. The University’s Healthy University Policy supports health education, mental-health awareness, healthy-eating education and counselling, preventive health services, and knowledge on smoking and other health risks. Most activities are led by the Faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing, with the Student Union and the Faculty of Communication Arts supporting health communication.
Channels and main initiatives. Health literacy is promoted through all five channels listed by HURS: posters and infographics displayed on campus, health promotion events with printed and web materials, social-media channels of the health-science faculties, regular training for older people, community leaders, volunteers and young people, and innovative behaviour-change programmes. The main initiatives are the annual Smoke-free Campaign, International Yoga Day, the Osot Siam Pharmacy public health communication channel, the Correct Use of Medicine workshops and the award-winning smoking-cessation programme The Last Puff (Table HP 1.1.1). They are complemented by Siam Safety & Healthy Week and community NCD health literacy activities (Table HP 1.1.2).
Topics and outcomes. The programmes cover smoking cessation, rational medicine use, NCD prevention, physical activity and mind-body health, healthy ageing, occupational and environmental health, medication safety and disease prevention. The Last Puff shows that the activities go beyond giving information to changing behaviour: a 35% quit rate, a 41.94% reduction in smoking after six months and 92% patient satisfaction (Table HP 1.1.3).
Faculty of Nursing Elderly Club. The club meets on campus about every two months. In 7 sessions from June 2025 to August 2026, older adults attended 532 times, with 438 nursing-student and 63 lecturer attendances. Each session combines exercise (Tai Chi, aerobics, low-impact and posture exercise), meditation and health knowledge, and is evaluated by the members; mean satisfaction was 4.37 out of 5 (Table HP 1.1.4). On 29 June 2026 nursing students and lecturers screened 77 members for frailty, nutrition, abdominal obesity, cognition and depression and gave health advice (Table HP 1.1.5). Members’ requests in the evaluations led to new topics, such as knee-friendly exercise and dementia prevention (Table HP 1.1.6).
Table HP 1.1.1 – Health literacy activities
| HURS activity type | Main activity | Other Siam University activities | Evidence strength | Photos |
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| 1. Regular exhibition of boards or posters on health promotion | Annual Smoke-free Campaign: posters and smoking-cessation infographics displayed on campus (Student Union, Faculties of Nursing and Pharmacy; Quitline 1600) |
Event posters, e.g. International Yoga Day 2025 and 2026; Kidney-Friendly University “less seasoning, less salt” campaign with campus food vendors (from August 2026) |
Strong – posters and infographics displayed on campus | Section 1 |
| 2. Regular health promotion events or printed and web materials | International Yoga Day: 19 June 2025 (more than 120 faculty members and students, with the Embassy of India) and 19 June 2026 (about 100 participants) |
Siam Sports Fair and Hukwang Games 2026 (20–29 March 2026, more than 1,000 participants a day); BMA health screening on campus (16–19 June 2025, 782 people); Siam Walk & Run 2025; Kidney-Friendly University launch (19 August 2026); smoke-free leaflets and stickers; SDG 3 web page; NODE Phasi Charoen website |
Strong | Section 2 |
| 3. Regular health knowledge through radio, TV or web-based channels |
Osot Siam Pharmacy public health channel: “Osotsiam SU” YouTube (health station programme), webinars, Facebook and infographics; NCD screening at the pharmacy |
“Siam Cares for Health” (Faculty of Medicine) on Facebook and TikTok; NODE Phasi Charoen Facebook and TikTok; Elderly Club LINE group with leg-cramp prevention and hand-massage materials |
Very strong | Section 3 |
| 4. Regular health promotion or lifestyle training programmes | Correct Use of Medicine and Rational Drug Use workshops for older people (25 August – 10 September 2025; 80 residents at Bang Khae Elderly Care Center 2): medicines, antibiotics and painkillers, AMR and CKD |
Faculty of Nursing Elderly Club: 7 sessions, 532 attendances by older adults (Table HP 1.1.4); village health volunteers (30 August 2025); NODE community-leader workshop (20 September 2025); “Bright Youth” smoke-free youth project (27 January 2024) |
Very strong | Section 4 |
| 5. Other innovative activities to promote health literacy | The Last Puff: smoking cessation and health literacy programme with measurable outcomes (Table HP 1.1.3) |
Elderly Club screening with individual advice (77 members, 29 June 2026; Table HP 1.1.5); From Helpless to Wellness (“Tree of Hope”); Faculty of Nursing digital self-care tools (Preg-PLAM 4 Warning Signs application; LINE-based CKD self-management programmes) |
Outstanding – strongest evidence | Section 5 |
Green: activity type in place. Sources: SDG Report 2024–2025, Goal 3; Sustainability Report 2025–2026; Elderly Club schedules and evaluation reports; SI 6.1, SI 6.2 and SI 8.1 evidence.
Table HP 1.1.2 – Additional health literacy activities (back-up evidence)
| Activity | HURS activity type | Health literacy content and figures | Evidence strength |
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| Siam Safety & Healthy Week (Faculty of Medicine) | Health promotion training or event | Seminars with the Rotary Club of Patumwan, the Air-Conditioning Engineering Association of Thailand and the Department of Health Service Support, Ministry of Public Health (13 and 17 June 2024; 23 June 2025): HVAC maintenance and microbial and mould control, hospital water and medical gas systems, occupational health and safety management, air decontamination. |
Strong |
| Phasi Charoen Well-being Node: NCDs | Innovative or community health literacy activity | Siam University with the Phasi Charoen District Office, the National Health Security Office and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration; 45 communities chose NCD risk reduction as the main concern through the “Tree of Problem”; community-leader workshop, 20 September 2025. |
Good – add education and outcome evidence |
| From Helpless to Wellness (Faculty of Communication Arts) | Innovative or community health literacy activity | With the Phasi Charoen District Office and the Thai Health Promotion Foundation: the “Tree of Hope” showed that 31% of Suphatphiban residents were at high risk of NCDs; an organic farming initiative grew from 10 community leaders to 50 participants. Finalist, 2025 International Green Gown Awards. |
Good |
| Science and Technology Youth Camp #13 (Faculty of Science) | Health promotion training | 45 secondary school students and teachers from 6 schools learned food technology and food safety (January 2025). |
Good outreach evidence |
Source: SDG Report 2024–2025, Goal 3.
Table HP 1.1.3 – The Last Puff: outcomes
| The Last Puff (Faculty of Pharmacy) | Result |
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| Running since | 2012 – started in third-year pharmacy courses (Drug Chemistry 2 and Pharmaceutics 2) |
| Pharmacy students taking part | About 60 a year; more than 800 from 2012 to 2025 |
| Smokers helped through Osot Siam Pharmacy and community outreach |
About 40 a year |
| Quit rate | 35% |
| Reduction in smoking after six months | 41.94% |
| Satisfaction of patients | 92% |
| Cigarette smoking on campus | 68.10% (2013) → 25.50% (2018–2019) |
| Healthcare cost saved per successful quitter | THB 100,000 a year |
| Recognition | “Highly Commended”, Student Engagement, 2025 International Green Gown Awards |
Source: SDG Report 2024–2025, Goal 3, item 1.1.
Table HP 1.1.4 – Faculty of Nursing Elderly Club sessions, June 2025 – August 2026
| Date | Health literacy content | Older adults | Nursing students | Lecturers | Mean satisfaction (of 5) | Benefit reported |
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| 23 Jun 2025 | “Valued Seniors, Good Health, Happy Life”: Tai Chi and aerobics, line dance and Baslop, making dishwashing liquid from kaffir lime; leg-cramp prevention material sent to the LINE group |
65 | 64 | 7 | 4.15 | Health-care tips 79.2% |
| 25 Aug 2025 | Mother’s Day: Tai Chi and aerobics (20 minutes), Talung rhythm dance, hand massage for health by a Thai traditional massage expert (handouts sent to the LINE group) |
80 | 40 | 6 | Not reported | Learned hand massage for health |
| 27 Oct 2025 | Brain exercise; Tai Chi and aerobics; “Exercise for osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and balance training in older people” |
40 | 80 | 10 | 4.48 | Self-care knowledge 73.9% |
| 19 Jan 2026 | New Year Party 2026: Thai dance performances, ballroom dance, healthy social activities |
103 | 63 | 12 | 4.49 | Physical, mental and social health 71.93% |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Thai New Year: meditation, water blessing for elders, Thai folk games, Baslop and Manohra dances, ramwong |
82 | 64 | 8 | 4.38 | Physical, mental and social health 75% |
| 29 Jun 2026 | “Seniors Who Care About Health”: screening for frailty, sarcopenia, nutrition, depression and dementia; health behaviour assessment; “4 Smart” healthy ageing (no falls, no forgetting, no depression, eating well); brain training; Tai Chi and aerobics |
80 | 64 | 13 | 4.41 | Physical, mental and social health 74.1% |
| 24 Aug 2026 | “Building Bonds”: low-impact, knee-friendly exercise; posture exercise against a hunched back; standing exercise to reduce belly fat; arm stretching with Thai dance |
82 | 63 | 7 | 4.30 | Health-care tips 79.2%; physical, mental and social health 85.4% |
| Total | 7 sessions on campus (a study visit on 20 March 2026 with 30 members is not counted) |
532 | 438 | 63 | Mean 4.37 |
Source: Elderly Club activity schedules and evaluation reports, Faculty of Nursing. Numbers are attendances per session; satisfaction is the overall mean from each evaluation. All sessions in the 5th-floor seminar room, Building 12 (Chaloem Phrakiat Building).
Table HP 1.1.5 – Health screening of Elderly Club members, 29 June 2026
| Screening result, 29 June 2026 (77 club members) |
Number of members |
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| Frail (3 of 5 criteria) / at risk (2 of 5) / early risk (1 of 5) |
1 / 7 / 18 |
| Malnourished / at risk of malnutrition | 1 / 1 |
| Abdominal obesity (waist > 90 cm men, > 80 cm women) | 44 |
| Cognitive impairment or suspected dementia | 9 |
| Depression | None found |
| Follow-up | The club follows up and supports members to slow these problems and promote health |
Source: evaluation report “Seniors Who Care About Health”, 29 June 2026. Group totals only; no individual data are shown.
Table HP 1.1.6 – Use of members’ feedback in the next sessions
| Members asked for (evaluation) | Topic added | Session |
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| Exercise to relieve pain, e.g. knee pain (23 June 2025) | Exercise for osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and balance; knee-friendly low-impact exercise |
27 October 2025; 24 August 2026 |
| Health questions in the questionnaire to plan talks (23 June 2025) |
Health screening and health behaviour assessment | 29 June 2026 |
| Brain stimulation and dementia prevention (27 October 2025) | Brain training; “4 Smart” – no forgetting | 29 June 2026 |
| Training on health care of older people (19 January and 20 April 2026) |
“4 Smart” healthy ageing | 29 June 2026 |
Source: suggestions in the Elderly Club evaluation reports and the programmes of the following sessions.
Evidence to attach:
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SDG Report 2024–2025, Goal 3 – https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SDG-report-2024-2025.pdf; Sustainability Report 2025–2026 – https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/SDG_report_2025_2026.pdf (pp. 28, 48, 49, 54)