Healthy China: Everyone talks about | Liang Xiaofeng: Health management pays attention to the whole life cycle, and the prevention threshold should be moved forward

In this issue of "Healthy China: Everyone Talks", Liang Xiaofeng, dean and chair professor of Kangtai Biological Vaccine Industry Research Institute of Jinan University, part-time vice president of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, and former deputy director of China CDC, put forward a vision for the "construction of public health system".

Director Liang Xiaofeng, who has been engaged in immunization planning for a long time, analyzed the reasons for the proper prevention of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in China from the perspective of public health: first of all, the government has put the protection of the people's health in the first place; secondly, vaccination has played a very good role; non-medical measures such as nucleic acid testing, epidemiological investigation, epidemic prevention knowledge popularization, and implementation of infectious disease laws have played an important role; the implementation of public health policies, especially the coverage of the disease control network, has also become an important factor in the orderly prevention of the epidemic. However, public health still has the problems of low level of operation, non-prominent individualization, and weak family guidance.

Although more than 2 billion doses have been administered nationwide, vaccination rates are still uneven in various regions, with the low vaccination rates of the elderly being the most prominent, with inadequate vaccination awareness, limited mobility and insufficient number of medical personnel to vaccinate at home.

In addition to completing the prevention and control of the epidemic, the main goal of the current public health undertaking is to make chronic diseases unavoidable and slow, and to prevent the occurrence of complications. "Healthy China" advocates the maintenance of the health concept of the whole life cycle, Liang Xiaofeng takes the amount of salt eaten as an example, advocating that "the whole life cycle should be grasped from children, teenagers should be grasped, adults should play an exemplary role, the elderly should learn some new lifestyles" "The elderly group should live to learn from the old, learn health-related knowledge, including food, clothing, housing and transportation, especially eating." At the family level, with the focus on prevention, tobacco control, salt reduction, sugar reduction, more exercise, and more vegetables are implemented; at the level of health care institutions, the focus is on treatment, and the responsibilities of the two are separated. In addition, he especially mentioned that the elderly have outstanding problems such as unbalanced diet and irrational exercise, and it has become a top priority to popularize health knowledge for them.

When it comes to public health education and talent training in the field of public health, Liang Xiaofeng believes that universities are good at research and development, but the production and sales links are relatively weak, and enterprises can complement them, he called on teachers and scientific researchers to expand research into products, and at the same time build a platform to solve the bottleneck of the industry. On the other hand, the treatment of public health talents urgently needs to be improved, because the direction of talent training in universities does not match the demand for public health talents at the grass-roots level, which requires universities to carry out reforms and complete the training of new technologies, advanced knowledge and theories on campus. He called for the popularization of public health education through the Internet, and the close integration of technology with the needs of society and the people, so that public health education can have a better development.

Referring to the role of Internet medical treatment, Liang Xiaofeng stressed that Internet medical care can make up for the lack of low level of offline medical services and limited high-quality medical resources. Through it, knowledge and skills can be transferred to medical personnel in remote areas and their authority can be used to change the health behaviour of the local population. Moreover, Internet medicine can also manage the medication problems of patients with chronic diseases, through the implantation of chips or wearable devices, monitor their body index, and supervise chronic disease patients to take drugs on time and on demand. Finally, through the Internet platform, high-quality medical resources will sink, serve the grassroots, and play a greater role.