Autumn is cool, Shenzhen is slightly cool, it is the most comfortable season of the year - autumn, and this is also the season of high incidence of infectious diseases such as influenza and norovirus infectious diarrheal disease, these viruses are like invisible enemies, waiting for the opportunity to move, ready to invade our body at any time. Disease control focuses on prevention, and hands are one of the main ways to spread germs, so developing good hand hygiene habits can better protect your own health and the health of others!
October 15 this year is the 17th "Global Handwashing Day", Bao'an District CDC "Play with Science and Disease Control Those Things - 'Hands' to Care Health and Do a Good Job in 'Seven' Steps" popular science activities into the campus of the jurisdiction, with the children's favorite way to "play with popular science", with interesting popular science games as the carrier, to popularize the "nine moments" in daily life that need to wash hands in time and the "seven-step handwashing method" of the correct handwashing method to the children in kindergarten, aiming to let children develop good living habits from an early age. Learn the right healthy lifestyle.
The event was hosted by the Health Bureau of Bao'an District, Shenzhen, undertaken by the Bao'an District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, co-organized by the Xin'an Branch of Bao'an District Public Health Service, Shenzhen Hospital of Southern Medical University and Xinghua Kindergarten (Group) of Bao'an District, and guided by the Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The activity took the form of "1+2" linkage and kicked off in Xinghua Kindergarten, Bao'an District, Shenzhen.
Picture books "walked" into the disease control classroom, and washing hands turned out to be very happy
At 9:30 in the morning, the children walked into the playground hand in hand, wow~ The giant three-dimensional picture book "I want to wash my hands" with a height of more than 2 meters made the children cheer. The "CDC Health Classroom" has been transformed into a picture book world that children can walk into and listen to the elder brothers and sisters of CDC tell scenes in the story. Oh! I seem to have experienced this episode as well; Oh! It turns out that if I don't wash my hands before eating, the bacteria will get into my stomach...... So, how do I do it? I'm going to wash my hands well! So how do you wash your hands properly? At the moment when the children walked out of the picture book, the expert was waiting for the children at the end of the picture book and took the children to dance hand washing exercises.
Bao'an disease control experts explain the picture book "I want to wash my hands".
Under the leadership of the experts, the teacher organized the children to learn the "seven-step handwashing method" rhythm exercise. Accompanied by cheerful music, the children aloud followed the mantra of "inside, outside, clamp, bow, big, stand, wrist" handwashing steps, while learning the standardized handwashing action, from the inside to the outside, from the fingertips to the wrist, each step of the children learned the same.
Experts teach the "seven-step handwashing method"
Rich science games: have fun, play and learn
In order to let the children keep the scientific knowledge of proper handwashing in mind, the experts can be said to rack their brains. In addition to immersive picture books, a number of interactive science games are also carefully designed for children to consolidate their popular science knowledge points and keep healthy living habits in mind. Experts have integrated the "Nine Moments" of handwashing and the essentials of proper handwashing into games such as smart puzzles, curling stones, and "loving hugs". Each time the children participate in a game, they deepen their memories of these healthy habits, and finally receive a small prize with the medal they have received. The form of "game + popular science" makes the children unsatisfied and very happy.
The main park of Xinghua Kindergarten in Bao'an District
Health starts from the baby, and a new chapter of health Bao'an is written
In the face of the reporter's question, the children scrambled to answer, I will wash my hands frequently in the future; I wash my hands before eating and after using the toilet; The first thing I do when I get home from school is to wash my hands and then eat the delicious food my mom made for me.
This "Washing Your Hands on Campus" science popularization activity is one of the series of offline activities of the Bao'an District CDC's "Playing with Science Popularization and Disease Control" health education brand project. This entertaining way of popularizing science, starting from the perspective of both young and old, uses interactive games as the carrier to popularize professional health knowledge, just like sowing a healthy seed and taking root in the hearts of residents in the jurisdiction.
Experts interact with children to popularize science
In the future, the Bao'an District Center for Disease Control and Prevention will continue to work with more schools in the district to lay a solid foundation for health education, start from habits, focus on methods, and start from "small", step by step to guide citizens to be the first responsible person for their own health, and jointly promote health education science popularization. Adhering to the original intention of "taking people's health as the center", we will continue to innovate the form and content of activities, strive to make health education closer to the daily life of citizens, and work hard to move towards a better future of a healthy China.
Written by: Nandu reporter Pan Yingyu, correspondent Chen Yixiong, Ma Nan, Guo Daiyao