National Steps Challenge & HealthHub Digital Health
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Free trackers, redeemable points, and a rare peer-reviewed check: across 696,907 registered adults, mean daily steps rose by roughly 1,580 — during the challenge phase.
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Launched in 2015, the Health Promotion Board's National Steps Challenge hands residents free step-tracker wearables that sync to its Healthy 365 app, rewarding activity with redeemable Healthpoints. A peer-reviewed evaluation of one 2017-18 season found 696,907 registered adults raised their mean daily step count by roughly 1,580 steps during the challenge phase. A companion national app, HealthHub (also launched 2015), gives Singaporeans access to their medical records and appointments. Since 2022 the challenge has run year-round, and from 18 September 2023 eligible Healthy 365 users no longer register for it separately.
📊 Impact
A peer-reviewed evaluation of one 2017-18 season, covering 696,907 registered adults, found mean daily step count rising by 1,579 steps (95% CI 1,564-1,594) during the main challenge phase against a baseline of 7,509 — and by 934 steps (95% CI 916-952) during the maintenance phase that followed. The median duration of engagement was 74 days.
🎓 Lesson
The programme is unusual in having been evaluated at all, and the evaluation's second number is the one worth keeping. During the challenge, with points to redeem, participants walked about 1,579 extra steps a day; once the challenge phase ended, the increase fell to 934. Half of participants engaged for 74 days or fewer. That is not a failure — a lasting gain of several hundred steps a day across two-thirds of a million adults is a large public health result — but it does say what the incentive was buying, and for how long.
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- Ministry of Health, Singapore · national governmentMinistry of Health Singapore newsroom: HealthHub launch, Oct 2015
- Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) · national governmentGovTech Singapore, 'Stepping up to the healthy challenge'
- PubMed Central (U.S. National Library of Medicine) · researchJournal of the American Heart Association (peer-reviewed): 'Evaluation of a Population-Wide Mobile Health Physical Activity Program in 696 907 Adults in Singapore', 2022 (PMC mirror)
- Mothership · pressMothership.SG: '10,000 steps benchmark to be phased out', Feb 2023
- Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific — Impact of the national steps challenge … to 2050 (19 Mar 2026, PMC)
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Launched in 2015, the Health Promotion Board's National Steps Challenge hands residents free step-tracker wearables that sync to its Healthy 365 app, rewarding activity with redeemable Healthpoints
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A companion national app, HealthHub (also launched 2015), gives Singaporeans access to their medical records and appointments
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A peer-reviewed evaluation of one 2017-18 season, covering 696,907 registered adults, found mean daily step count rising by 1,579 steps (95% CI 1,564-1,594) during the main challenge phase against a baseline of 7,509 — and by 934 steps (95% CI 916-952) during the maintenance phase that followed
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The median duration of engagement was 74 days
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once the challenge phase ended, the increase fell to 934
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Since 2022 the challenge has run year-round
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from 18 September 2023 eligible Healthy 365 users no longer register for it separately
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Journal of the American Heart Association (peer-reviewed): 'Evaluation of a Population-Wide Mobile Health Physical Activity Program in 696 907 Adults in Singapore', 2022 (PMC mirror)
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Peer-reviewed: 696,907 registered adults; mean daily steps +1,579 challenge phase
Ministry of Health Singapore newsroom: HealthHub launch, Oct 2015
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- 2015-10-18
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HealthHub launch 2015 as national health-records portal/app
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GovTech Singapore, 'Stepping up to the healthy challenge'
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Steps Challenge design: free wearables, Healthy 365 app, Healthpoints, 2015 launch
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Mothership.SG: '10,000 steps benchmark to be phased out', Feb 2023
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Ongoing operation, Healthy 365 sync, 2023 reward change, Healthier SG shift
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HealthHub — National Steps Challenge Terms and Conditions (HPB)
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The September 2023 change was automatic enrolment into the challenge via Healthy 365.
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Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific — Impact of the national steps challenge … to 2050 (19 Mar 2026, PMC)
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Peer-reviewed modelling paper: NSC has run since 2015 with waves NSC1-6 and 'NSC Always-on' from 2022; over 2.1 million enrolled (authors' figure).
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “National Steps Challenge & HealthHub Digital Health” — Singapore, Singapore. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/singapore-steps-challenge-healthhub/ (last verified 2026-10-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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