TY - JOUR AU - Aprillia, Shereen AU - Budiono, Jolene AU - Wijaya, Meiliyana PY - 2022/05/23 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Educational Efforts to Improve Public Awareness about Greening and Healthy Lifestyle in Urban Areas JF - MITRA: Jurnal Pemberdayaan Masyarakat JA - mitra VL - 6 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.25170/mitra.v6i1.2947 UR - https://mx2.atmajaya.ac.id/index.php/mitra/article/view/2947 SP - 43-53 AB - <p>Public awareness and concern about greening and healthy lifestyles in preserving the environment&nbsp;and improving health status are crucial despite the covid-19 pandemic. One approach to deal with&nbsp;this issue is by spreading the information and taking promotive actions which aim to increase&nbsp;public awareness of the importance of greening and healthy lifestyles in their daily lives. Various&nbsp;online educational activities for communities are needed to increase their knowledge and concern.&nbsp;In this regard, the Daerah Binaan (DABIN) unit and the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point&nbsp;(HACCP) of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Atma Jaya Catholic University of&nbsp;Indonesia held a SEHATI challenge and an educational seminar "Evergreen: Go Green, Go&nbsp;Healthy." One of the topics raised through this online seminar was "Urban Farming in the&nbsp;Pandemic Period: Economical and Ecological," which discusses various benefits of growing&nbsp;hydroponic vegetables. In addition, the topic of promoting a healthy lifestyle includes the proper&nbsp;processing of fresh vegetables to avoid parasitic contamination and a healthy breakfast with the&nbsp;consumption of probiotics. As many as nine and 198 people attended the challenge competition and&nbsp;seminar. A pre-test and a post-test were held before and after the seminar to determine the&nbsp;participants' knowledge. The result showed that the participants' knowledge increased between&nbsp;15% to 38%. The efforts to deliver periodic education about greening and healthy lifestyles action&nbsp;will continue to be carried out by DABIN and HACCP. These efforts aim to improve public&nbsp;awareness about the importance of this topic, reduce global warming, and improve the health status&nbsp;of an area.</p> ER -