The focus of community health service is to prevent, protect and promote health.
Prevention mainly refers to how to prevent the occurrence of diseases or injuries, such as early physical examination for healthy people or rehabilitation measures for certain diseases. Protection is mainly to protect people from harmful substances in the environment, such as setting up smoke-free areas and standardizing the management of food hygiene. To promote health, it is mainly to arrange health activities that community members participate in, such as aerobics, diet and nutrition guidance, and good health habit education.
Main features:
1. universality: the target of community health service is all residents in the community, including all kinds of people, namely, healthy people, high-risk people, sick people, women, children and the elderly.
2. Comprehensiveness: For different groups of people, the content of community health service is composed of prevention, health care, medical treatment, rehabilitation, health education and family planning technical services, involving health-related biological, psychological and social aspects.
3. Continuity: Community health service runs through life, covering every cycle of life and the whole process of disease occurrence and development. Provide targeted services according to the characteristics and needs of each life cycle and disease stage.
4. Practicality: The purpose of community health service is to meet the needs of the clients, so its service content, price, time and place must consider practicality to ensure that community residents can enjoy community health service, so as to truly achieve the purpose of promoting and maintaining the health of community residents.