Chinanews.com, Beijing, February 21 (Reporter Li Chun) The first batch of popular science books "Healthy China, You and Me Together" were released in Beijing on the 20th.
Li Bin, deputy director of the National Health Commission, pointed out that popularizing health knowledge and improving health literacy is to empower the people and enable them to pursue a higher quality of life and a richer spiritual world.
The "Healthy China You and I Walk Together" series of popular science books are compiled by the Publicity Department of the National Health Commission and published by the People's Medical Publishing House.
According to Mi Feng, the spokesperson of the National Health and Medical Commission, the first batch of four books, two of which have been compiled and released on the same day, are the sub-volumes "Knowledge and Action Unity of Health" and "Science Guards Healthy Growth" sub-volume .
Among them, the book "Knowledge-action Unity Healthy Way" introduces readers to a healthy lifestyle and basic health skills, absorbs the essence of Chinese excellent traditional culture, advocates people to truly achieve unity of knowledge and action, and maintains personal health and family health .
"The Way of Unity of Knowledge and Action to Health" Photo courtesy of People's Medical Publishing House
As the editor-in-chief of the sub-volume of "Knowledge and Action Unity of Health", Wu Jinglei, president of the Shanghai Medical Association, said that after receiving the task of compiling popular science books, they specially set up a book writing committee to promote the writing of books in a scientific and orderly manner. Improve the overall framework of the book, the style and format of the content, the number of supporting question types, and the expression form of the drawing video, etc., and have undergone many revisions to form this book.
"Adhering to a scientific and rigorous attitude and using easy-to-understand language will help readers develop good health habits, shape a healthy lifestyle, and improve their health literacy."
Another book released on the same day is "Science Guards Healthy Growth".
This book focuses on the most common and important health problems of children and adolescents, and is also the most concerned health problem of parents. It provides practical knowledge and medical guidance on growth and development, nutrition and diet, etc., and escorts the healthy growth of children and adolescents.
Ni Xin, editor-in-chief of the chapter and president of Beijing Children's Hospital, pointed out that children's health is related to thousands of households.
How to keep children thriving on a healthy path and provide them with a good and healthy lifestyle involves family, school, society and other aspects.
"I hope that everyone will work hand in hand to truly build a blue sky for children's health."
"Healthy China · You and Me Together" series of popular science books.
Photo courtesy of People's Medical Publishing House
"As children's clinicians, it is our bounden duty to disseminate scientific health knowledge to protect children's health." Wang Quan, a member of the National Health Popular Science Expert Database and director of the Emergency Department of Beijing Children's Hospital, is in charge of the book "Science Guards Healthy Growth" about safety issues. Organization and preparation of protection chapters.
She said that the writing team drew up ten topics for the compilation of the most common types of injuries that are most harmful to children's health.
In addition to teaching parents some correct and simple treatment measures, the writing work also focuses on how to prevent, and the short stories selected are also based on real and typical clinical cases.
Wang Weiheng, director of the Book Division of the Publishing Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department, pointed out that the publication of popular science books connects scientific and technological workers at one end and the public at the other end, and is an important part of popularization of science. Scientific thinking, advocating scientific methods, and promoting innovation and development play an important role.
The two volumes of "Knowledge-Action Unity of Health" and "Science Guarding Healthy Growth" released on the same day meet the diverse needs of the public for health knowledge in content, and give readers a new reading experience in form. They are high-quality, high-grade, high-quality level health science works.
According to reports, after the release of the above two books, "Healthy China You and Me Together" will also launch a series of books such as "Promoting Health and Enjoying Old Age" and "Understanding Cancer Can Be Prevented and Treated".
It is worth mentioning that this set of popular science books has modules such as "small classroom", "interpretation of misunderstandings" and "small arena of health knowledge". In addition to graphic content, it also includes video display.
Readers can scan the QR code to obtain self-test questions and answer analysis, and check the mastery of knowledge, which not only facilitates content review, but also improves the sense of substitution and interactivity.
"Science Guards Healthy Growth" Photo courtesy of People's Health Publishing House
Li Bin said that in addition to the two books released that day, this set of popular science books will also publish a series of books in the future, covering all aspects of public concern, from infants to the elderly, from lifestyle, mental health, reasonable diet to cancer, chronic Respiratory diseases, infectious diseases, etc., covering the whole population and the whole life cycle, taking into account various health influencing factors and common diseases.
From theme design to content compilation, fully consider the cognitive characteristics and acceptance habits of different audiences, and combine the concerns and expectations of the masses to achieve objectification and focus.
"This series of books is a set of health encyclopedias tailored for the masses based on what the masses think."
Li Bin pointed out that in the new era, the people's needs for a better life have gone beyond basic categories such as "foodstuffs, food, clothing, housing and transportation", and instead seek to promote the all-round development of people.
From this perspective, popularizing health knowledge and improving health literacy is to empower the people and enable them to pursue a higher quality of life and a richer spiritual world.
"I sincerely hope that this set of popular science books can become the most reliable reference book for the masses when they encounter health problems, become a practical health book for thousands of families, and help more people take responsibility for their health." (End)