The infant mortality rate and the mortality rate of children under 5 years old are controlled below 7.5‰ and 9.5‰ respectively. The exclusive breastfeeding rate of infants aged 0-6 months is over 50%. The plan puts forward eight actions, including children's health promotion action, newborn safety action, comprehensive prevention and control action of birth defects, early childhood development action, children's nutrition improvement action, children's key disease prevention and control action, children's medical and health service improvement action, and children's health science and technology innovation action.
For example, improve the children's medical and health service system, expand children's medical and health service resources, promote the construction of pediatric medical associations, and encourage social forces to set up children's medical and health institutions. Reasonably adjust the price of pediatric medical care services, promote the grading diagnosis and treatment system, give priority to children's family contract services, enhance the ability of basic public health services, and gradually form a medical treatment pattern of first consultation and two-way referral at the grassroots level. Strengthen the construction of children's medical and health care talents, intensify training, improve wages and promote career development. Strengthen the construction of Chinese medicine pediatrics in medical institutions, actively promote the application of appropriate technology in Chinese medicine pediatrics, and promote the implementation of Chinese medicine public health services in the field of children's health. Source: People's Daily