Half Moon Talk 丨 Liang Xiaofeng: Let people get sick less and get sick later

Liang Xiaofeng: Let people get sick less and get sick later

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Everyone is the first responsible person for their own health, advocating a healthy lifestyle, vigorously popularizing health knowledge and skills, and guiding the public to establish a healthy lifestyle of reasonable diet, moderate exercise, smoking cessation and alcohol restriction and psychological balance, which has become the consensus of experts in the industry.

Liang Xiaofeng, part-time vice president of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association and former deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, called for strengthening the health management of the whole life cycle and the management of chronic diseases in the elderly need to move forward, so that people can get sick less and get sick later, reduce the occurrence of chronic disease complications, strengthen the health promotion of the elderly, and improve the health literacy of the elderly.

Liang Xiaofeng

The main goal of chronic disease prevention and control

During the COVID-19 epidemic, the vaccination rate of the elderly group is not as good as that of the youth group, especially the elderly, who have encountered some difficulties in vaccination, on the one hand, because the elderly have some chronic diseases or have limited mobility; On the other hand, the elderly do not have enough awareness of the importance of vaccination and lack of health knowledge.

Liang Xiaofeng said that strengthening the popularization of health knowledge among the elderly is a top priority. Now the national health department has issued an appeal and taken measures to encourage the elderly to develop good health habits and master some nutrition knowledge and first aid knowledge.

"In the past, medical treatment was 'heavy treatment, light prevention', and when there was a disease, it was treated, and the implementation of disease prevention measures was not in place." Liang Xiaofeng said that taking smoking as an example, whether in cities or villages, smokers can be seen everywhere, and there is no shortage of "smoke-swallowing people" in public places. To implement health management, it is necessary to let people implement health habits and turn health management into a conscious action, such as tobacco control, salt reduction, sugar control, scientific movement, etc. "How to let the masses implement these healthy habits is a question worth thinking about." Liang Xiaofeng said.

With the advancement of the construction of a healthy China, the understanding of the general public on "what is health" is also constantly changing. There are also new requirements in the industry for the prevention and control of chronic diseases in the elderly. When people are old, the body will naturally degenerate organ function, and it is easy to get some chronic diseases, the most common tumors, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, chronic airway obstruction, etc.

"Now the goal of chronic disease prevention and control is to make people less sick and slower to get sick, especially to prevent the occurrence of chronic disease complications." Liang Xiaofeng said.

Health management starts with adolescents

With the improvement of living conditions, diabetes, hypertension and other chronic diseases surge, due to the lack of health concepts and health expert guidance, these chronic patients in the early stage of the disease did not pay attention, some patients have reached the indications for hospitalization but for various reasons to delay, resulting in chronic disease complications, and even lead to serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Liang Xiaofeng stressed that in fact, many chronic diseases have good prevention methods, and the concept of whole life cycle health management is very important, that is, the threshold of disease prevention should be moved forward, starting from childhood and youth.

"For example, many people smoke second-hand smoke when they are young, living in a smoky environment, he is the victim of second-hand smoke, and when he grows up, especially when he is old, he is prone to respiratory diseases, which belongs to health management in the early stage of the 'whole life cycle'. Therefore, health management is not only an individual affair, but also a family responsibility and a social responsibility. Liang Xiaofeng said.

Some elderly people like to eat dishes with heavy tastes, and their eating habits are unhealthy, because they have such eating habits at a young age. There are also some elderly people who need to take medication for a long time, but often forget, forget to monitor blood pressure, blood sugar, and do not have good health management habits. Liang Xiaofeng called for health management to start from dolls and teenagers to promote children to develop good habits, so that they can get sick less and get sick later.

Liang Xiaofeng said that many people's health literacy is low, the awareness rate and control rate of chronic diseases are not high, and the growth rate of diabetes and hypertension patients is fast, which consumes medical resources. We should strengthen health communication and health promotion, improve the health literacy of the masses, change the traditional thinking of "heavy treatment and light prevention", and enhance our ability to manage health.

(Published in Half Moon Talk, No. 1, 2022)