Patriotic Hygiene Movement Creates "China Miracle" (Ten Years of People's Health ③)

　　Xiong Jian Li Qiuyang

　　"People's Daily Overseas Edition" (Page 09, July 05, 2022)

　　This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Patriotic Hygiene Movement.

　　The Patriotic Hygiene Movement is not simply cleaning, but should work on improving living environment, eating habits, social and mental health, public health facilities, etc., and promote a civilized, healthy and green lifestyle.

　　The Patriotic Hygiene Movement is a great initiative and successful practice of the Communist Party of China in applying the mass line to sanitation and disease prevention, creating a "Chinese miracle" of hygiene and health.

　　Especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the patriotic health movement has further strengthened the leadership of the party, organized and mobilized the masses to carry out a series of activities, and effectively guaranteed the health of the people.

　　In the past ten years, the urban and rural living environment has been significantly improved, with blue sky, clear water and pure land around us; in the past ten years, the construction of hygienic cities and hygienic townships has been further promoted, the healthy city has been comprehensively explored, and the integration of health into all policies has been further implemented; Waiting for "healthy cells" to thrive, healthy lifestyles have become a new fashion, and a strong line of defense against the epidemic will be built.

The proportion of national health cities above the prefecture level in the country exceeds 60%

　　Mao Qun'an, deputy director of the Office of the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee and director of the Planning Information Department of the National Health and Health Commission, said that the patriotic health campaign has carried out a lot of work over the years around the theme of "healthy environment promotion".

　　Create a healthy environment and build a healthy home.

The second round of urban and rural environmental sanitation and cleanliness was launched to carry out centralized sanitation renovations in key areas such as old communities, urban-rural junctions, and farmers' markets.

　　Conserve the concept of health and improve health literacy.

Widely carry out popular science activities around disease prevention and control, healthy lifestyles, etc., especially in response to the requirements of normalized epidemic prevention and control, launched activities to advocate a civilized, healthy, green and environmentally friendly lifestyle across the country to guide the general public to learn some of the characteristics developed in epidemic prevention and control. Good habits and good practices persist for a long time.

　　Strengthen health governance to help build a healthy China.

The establishment of healthy towns and the construction of healthy towns shall be carried out in an all-round way across the country, and health shall be integrated into the whole process and every link of urban planning, construction and management.

At present, the national health cities above the prefecture level account for more than 60% of the country, and a number of model cities for the construction of healthy cities have been created, laying a solid foundation for the construction of a healthy China.

　　With the joint efforts of various regions, departments and all sectors of society, the urban and rural living environment has been continuously optimized, the health level of the population has been greatly improved, the popularity of sanitary toilets in rural areas, the rate of harmless treatment of urban domestic waste, air quality and other environmental indicators, as well as the average life expectancy Health indicators such as infant mortality and infant mortality have increased significantly compared with ten years ago.

The concept of "Health in All Policies" is realized

　　After the outbreak of COVID-19, it has become the consensus of all sectors of society to popularize health knowledge, establish good dietary habits, and promote civilized and healthy living habits.

　　In this regard, Mao Qun'an said that the masses have been widely participating in patriotic health campaigns for a long time. For example, after the outbreak of the epidemic, the public actively participated in the prevention and control of the epidemic with practical actions. Everyone can wear masks, wash hands frequently, ventilate frequently, and reduce Gather, use public chopsticks, maintain a one-meter social distance, actively learn health knowledge, and develop good living habits of reasonable diet, moderate exercise, quitting smoking and limiting alcohol, and psychological balance.

These seemingly simple things are actually the main content of the patriotic hygiene movement.

　　Over the past ten years, China has made great achievements in health care and achieved good social benefits by continuously promoting the development of the patriotic health movement.

For example, the health level of the whole people has been significantly improved.

Through extensive health science popularization activities, the concept of health and basic skills have become increasingly popular among the people. At present, the proportion of people who regularly participate in physical exercise has reached 37.2%, the health literacy level of residents has reached 23.15%, the average life expectancy has reached 77.3 years, and the average health status of the average person has reached 37.2%. Greatly improved.

　　According to Mao Qun'an, the patriotic health campaign is a health work method with Chinese characteristics, which is also praised by the international community.

The World Health Organization spoke highly of "well before health in all policies became a global slogan, China was already practicing this principle through the patriotic health campaign".

Through the implementation of the Patriotic Hygiene Campaign, the concept of "Integrating Health into All Policies" has been truly realized in China, with good results.

The construction of healthy cities has entered a period of rapid development and remarkable results

　　The "Healthy China 2030" Planning Outline proposes that healthy cities should be taken as an important starting point for the construction of a healthy China.

In 2016, the National Patriotic Health Association fully launched the construction of healthy towns.

　　"We have successively issued the norms for the construction of healthy enterprises, schools, communities and other healthy cells, as well as healthy townships and healthy counties, and created a whole-chain construction system of healthy China, healthy cities, healthy counties, healthy towns, and healthy cells. In fact, the goals and tasks of building a healthy China will be implemented step by step through cities, counties and districts across the country." Mao Qun'an said that at present, the leadership of the party committee, the leadership of the government, the cooperation of multiple departments, the support of professional institutions, and the joint efforts of the whole society have been formed. Participate in the work pattern of healthy city construction.

　　In this process, the construction mode of "6+X" was formed.

"6" is to establish a working mechanism for the leadership of the party committee and the government, formulate a healthy city development plan, carry out the construction of "healthy cells", promote a number of key construction projects, establish a national health management system, and carry out construction effect evaluation.

　　"X" refers to promoting characteristic construction and encouraging localities to explore suitable construction models based on local conditions.

For example, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province has formed a construction model that promotes health awareness from top to bottom and gathers healthy cells from bottom to top, and explores a construction path suitable for the western region.

Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province takes the "three micro" actions of micro urban management, micro cells and micro volunteers as the starting point to mobilize citizens to participate in health management in an all-round way.

　　In order to promote the Patriotic Health Campaign and the Healthy China Action, 15 cities across the country have carried out the pilot work of the innovative model of "Healthy City Construction to Promote the Healthy China Action", which combines the construction of healthy cities with the promotion of women's and children's health and cancer prevention and control. In urban construction, we will promote the pilot work of health impact assessment, strengthen the source detection and early control of various risks and hidden dangers of health impact, and promote the integration of health into all policies.

　　Through the work in recent years, the comprehensive index and sub-indices of healthy cities in various regions have steadily improved, the health status of the population has continued to improve, and the infant mortality rate, the mortality rate of children under the age of 5, and the maternal mortality rate have continued to decline, reaching or surpassing that of high income. national average.

The construction of healthy cities has entered an important period of rapid development and remarkable results.

Building hospitals into places for health promotion

　　"Healthy China, doctors first".

In the process of implementing the Healthy China Strategy and promoting the Healthy China Action, hospitals and medical personnel have played the role of the main front and the main force.

　　"Hospitals are a core institution that promotes health promotion. Both hospitals and medical staff are advocates of health concepts, disseminators of health knowledge, and promoters of healthy behaviors." said Wu Wenming, vice president of Peking Union Medical College Hospital. , During the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Peking Union Medical College Hospital recorded a small video on how to conduct standardized hand disinfection and hand washing, and promoted the "seven-step hand washing method".

　　"From the simple act of washing hands, we can see the great promotion significance of medical institutions to health promotion work." Wu Wenming said that in the 1950s and 1960s, the medical institutions represented by Professors Zhang Xiaoqian, Lin Qiaozhi, Zeng Xianjiu and Huang Jiasi Everyone, go to the countryside and the fields to help improve the concept of rural medical and health care, promote the improvement and improvement of the health behavior of the majority of farmers, and compile books such as "Questions and Answers on Rural Women's Health" to promote the dissemination of health knowledge.

Later, with the promotion of TV and other media, medical staff went from behind the scenes to the front to publicize health knowledge more widely and promote health communication.

　　In terms of health promotion, Xiehe Hospital is only a microcosm, and all medical institutions are practicing.

Mao Qun'an said that in the work of health promotion, medical institutions and medical personnel are changing from treating diseases as the center to people's health. In the process of treating diseases, more attention is paid to the popularization of health knowledge and the training of health skills, so that the public can pay more attention to it. Disease prevention and recovery from illness, thereby truly improving public health.

In short, "the hospital should be truly built into a place for health promotion." Mao Qun'an said.