Social work has always regarded the family as an important practice field of professional services, and plays a unique role in integrating family resources, enhancing family functions, and improving family relationships. Therefore, we can give full play to the professional advantages of social work and help build a healthy family.
In January 2024, the National Health Commission and other eight departments jointly issued the "Notice on Comprehensively Carrying out the Construction of Healthy Families" to comprehensively deploy the construction of healthy families and build a solid foundation for a healthy China with healthy families. Family health is the cornerstone of national health, and promoting the construction of healthy families is an inherent requirement for promoting high-quality population development, and it is also the proper meaning of comprehensively promoting the construction of a healthy China.
Social work has always regarded the family as an important practice field of professional services, and plays a unique role in integrating family resources, enhancing family functions, and improving family relationships. Therefore, we can give full play to the professional advantages of social work and help build a healthy family.
Help improve family health literacy. Improving family health literacy can help families master basic health knowledge, form a healthy lifestyle, and improve the quality of life of family members. On the one hand, social workers can use digital social work to improve the accessibility of health knowledge, popularize scientific knowledge such as reproductive health and disease prevention to community families by holding online lectures on basic health knowledge, advocate healthy lifestyles, and improve the health literacy level of families. At the same time, give full play to the advantages of social work link resources, assist the health department to dynamically track the health status of key groups such as the "elderly, the young", and on this basis, organize community residents to establish health mutual aid groups, help establish and improve support networks such as neighbors, relatives and friends, and enhance the ability of community residents to respond to health risks. On the other hand, targeted services are provided around individual differences. For example, psychological counseling, health disease screening and other services are carried out for the elderly to alleviate the psychological and physical discomfort caused by ageing and improve the quality of life of the elderly; Carry out social integration and emotional counseling services for migrant children and left-behind children in the community, use professional methods such as group work to assist them in socialization, and pay attention to alleviating their growth anxiety; By connecting rehabilitation resources and carrying out rehabilitation training for people with disabilities, we can meet their rehabilitation needs and reduce the pressure on family caregivers.
Accelerate the training of family health instructors. The professional skills of family health instructors can contribute to the construction of healthy families. First, clarify your training goals and plans. Social workers can select community leaders to become family health instructors, design development plans for them, and help them improve their knowledge and skills in family health assessment, crisis intervention, and family education. Secondly, organize course learning and practice. On the one hand, social workers can contact college teachers, medical workers and other professionals to carry out professional training on social work theory and mental health for family health instructors, so as to help them consolidate their theoretical foundation. On the other hand, for the learning of practical knowledge, social workers can rely on the community to find practical opportunities for family health instructors, and help them accelerate the accumulation of practical experience in popularizing health knowledge, disseminating health concepts, carrying out health services, and imparting health skills. Again, make assessments and feedback. Social workers conduct return visits to the families served by the family health instructors to test the learning content and service effects of the family health instructors, and adjust the focus and direction of training and learning accordingly, so that the family health instructors are truly equipped with the ability to carry out health assessments and determine personalized health development plans for families.
Strengthen the construction of family health service positions. Social workers can give full play to the role of resource linkers, integrate family, community and social resources, build a support network for the construction of healthy families, and effectively make up for the shortcomings of insufficient family health resources. First of all, through the investigation and analysis of the type, quantity and distribution of existing health support resources in the community, we will assist the community in selecting suitable sites to build family health service sites, and equip facilities such as consultation rooms, activity rooms and children's activity areas to provide a comfortable service environment for community families. Secondly, by encouraging community families to participate in the design, construction and evaluation of community family health service positions in the whole process, community families can truly become participants, contributors and recipients of health service positions. Thirdly, by linking social resources, we will further improve the community family health service position. On the one hand, according to the diverse health needs of community families, actively communicate with enterprises and public welfare and charitable organizations, link health resources such as health science books, and collaboratively build a family health service position. On the other hand, explore the establishment of a family health resource reserve project, encourage qualified community residents to make charitable donations, and convert them into community resources to send them to families in need, so as to maximize the efficiency of resource use.
Source: Chinese Oral Daily
Text: School of Public Administration, Guizhou University, Linghu Qiushuang, Tang Yaqiu
Curator: Li Bing
Editor: Chen Yuan, Guan Zhongyao
Proofreading: Ma Yang
Review: Qin Mingrui, Xu Bingnan
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