China News Service, Beijing, June 1st, the second Thyroid Science Contest, jointly organized by the Thyroid Science Special Committee of the Chinese Medical Association Medical Science Branch and the Beijing Hongyi Medical Development Foundation, opened.
The thyroid gland is the largest endocrine gland in the human body and is the key to maintaining human health. Once the thyroid gland is abnormal, it will harm almost all organs and tissues in the body.
There are more than 200 million people with thyroid dysfunction in China. According to the survey results of the endocrine society of the Chinese Medical Association in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, the prevalence of hyperthyroidism in Chinese is 1.22%, the prevalence of hypothyroidism is 13.95%, and the highest prevalence is thyroid nodules, accounting for 20.43 %. In general, thyroid disease accounts for about 40% of the adult population.
The Thyroid Science Contest, held by the Medical Science Popularization Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctors Association, has received a lot of attention from many doctors and scholars since the first event was launched. The contest aims to bring together the power of science and help the public with thyroid health.
According to reports, the 2nd Thyroid Science Contest, the Thyroid Science Contest, solicited popular science works related to thyroid disease for the whole society (unlimited competition majors), hoping to further deepen the public's correct understanding of thyroid disease through the material and interesting science content. Promote the dissemination and exchange of popular knowledge about thyroid diseases.
The contest is divided into four groups: hypothyroidism video group, hypothyroidism graphic group, adenocarcinoma video group, and adenocarcinoma graphic group, including the collection of works, preliminary screening, public voting, offline finals and other links. Dozens of authoritative experts in thyroid-related fields from all over the country formed a special organizing committee to sit in the whole process, check the quality of the entries, and strive to dig up high-quality science works to convey the correct science content to the audience.
The organizer introduced that in order to stimulate the public's enthusiasm for the creation of medical science and reduce the difficulty of participating in the event, in addition to video works, a new type of graphic works collection is added to this event. Contestants can use the form of "text + picture" to create popular science content. , Competing for the final honorary award.
In addition, the popular science works are not good enough. In addition to being checked by professional judges, they must also be recognized by the public. To this end, the second session of the Thyroid Science Contest will be solicited for public review of the offline finals. In order to attract more social forces to participate in the popularization of thyroid disease knowledge, there are 1 champion and 1 runner-up in each of the four major categories of this tournament, for a total of 8. (Finish)