Health education is an important part of health work. Health education will make great achievements in the new historical period. Health education has great potential, attraction and good prospects.
Health education is the inevitable choice of medical development. Health education and health promotion occupy a very important position in our existing work. With the change of disease spectrum and death spectrum, medicine will also change. The mode and means of medical service should also be changed. Medicine is born of diseases, and the development of medicine is bound to be accompanied by the development of diseases, including the change and development of disease spectrum and the development of people's health needs. Now the composition of diseases has changed, infectious diseases have changed, and non-infectious diseases have also changed greatly. In this new situation, we must consider how to deal with the change of disease spectrum and its threat to people's health. Health education and health promotion are very important means to prevent and treat these diseases, or they are forced to adopt them to some extent. We can't just treat health education as a general measure, a general means and a general prevention and treatment method. Health education should have a new level and a new height. How did our previous medicine serve the prevention and treatment of diseases? Mainly through technical services. Medical institutions pass inspections and medicines; Treating patients by surgery is a technical service. Before health and epidemic prevention, a large part was also technical services. Environmental disinfection, application of vaccines and treatment of patients with infectious diseases are all technical services. So is maternal and child health care. To make full use of limited health resources to control existing emerging diseases, including infectious diseases and chronic non-communicable diseases, it is not enough to rely solely on technical services. For example, AIDS, so far, there is no breakthrough in treatment. How to reduce the threat of AIDS to human beings is now recognized: strengthening health education and health promotion means taking health education as a drug to prevent and treat AIDS. There are cancer, hypertension, cerebrovascular disease, diabetes and so on, and so on. I am engaged in cardiovascular diseases, and I don't think there is a new breakthrough in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. As a strategy to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, I think health education is very important. Medicine should have two means, technical means and knowledge means, technical service system and knowledge service system. We should expand medicine from technical service to knowledge service, and take health education as a new service system of medical knowledge service. Only in this way can medicine get better development. This is the first understanding of health education. Second, health education is the best choice to solve the shortage of health resources.
For many years, medicine has always regarded patients and healthy people as "customers". If we promote them to master health knowledge through health education and health promotion, we can help them serve themselves. Then they will change from medical clients to health self-service, which is a kind of health resource in itself. It can be said that this is an inexhaustible resource and the most extensive health resource in society. If we regard "people" as a new health resource, such health resources will be a great supplement to our previous health resources. This kind of health resources must be developed. So, through what development? It can only be developed through health education and promoted through health. Therefore, health education and health promotion are actually the best and biggest health resources. In the current market environment, health education also plays a special role, that is, it can stimulate the domestic demand for medical care. There are about 100 million people suffering from hypertension now, but how many people have taken their blood pressure? How many people who know about hypertension receive treatment? How many people have been treated reasonably? If these related knowledge are taught to people, then a considerable number of people will take their blood pressure, go to physical examination, go to patients and ask for treatment. What a broad medical prospect this has! It's just that we didn't know it before, so I think health education is a very important means to stimulate domestic medical demand under the existing market economy. In this decade, the incidence of diabetes has risen very fast, tripling. How much diabetes do we have now, and how many people can actively find diabetes? How many gallstones do we have now? The incidence of gallstones in China is 15%, but how many people have been treated for gallstones? They feel that their lives are in danger and have to treat acute cholecystitis and pancreatitis, which is not only harmful to health, but also fails to make rational use of health resources. Therefore, health education is the largest health resource in the health field, a means to achieve the best social and economic benefits, and a new growth point to stimulate domestic demand at present.
Thirdly, strengthening health education is an important choice for deepening health reform.
We all know that health education is very important now, but how to make health education really become an important means of prevention and control strategy, we must first form a service system. Health education is also a major part of our health reform. At present, health reform focuses more on the reform of institutions, systems and operational mechanisms. Without these reforms, there will be no new development. But medical reform is only the reform of institutions and systems. The reform of operational mechanism is not strong enough. The ultimate goal of health reform is to protect people's health, improve more effective prevention and control measures, and finally resist or control or reduce the threat of health risk factors such as diseases to people's health and improve the overall health level. Then, it is not enough to solve this problem only by system, but also a substantial reform is needed, that is, how to better control diseases with the changes of disease spectrum and death spectrum. This involves the reform of health work content. It is necessary to strengthen health education, take health education and health promotion as important strategies to deepen health reform, and make this new strategy establish its position in health work, establish it in policy and apply it in practice. This is an important content of current health reform. Only in this way can the first two become a reality.
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1. Health is the resource to realize a well-off society, one of the goals of building a well-off society, and the need of social and economic development.
Exhibition is an important embodiment of material civilization and spiritual civilization. Pursuing health is the right of every citizen, promoting and protecting health is the responsibility and obligation of society, and improving the quality of medical care for all is the glorious and sacred duty of our workers.
2. Health is gold, the foundation of life and the premise of career. If you have health, you have everything; if you lose health, you have nothing. Everyone is equal before health, and everyone needs health knowledge. Only when people live and work according to health laws can they spend their lives healthily, safely and happily. With the development of society and the improvement of people's living standards, the demand for life and health forces us to work hard, seriously and patiently in health education, knowledge dissemination, health promotion and popularization, and common sense of prevention and treatment.