The CPC Central Committee has put forward the strategic task of striving to build a harmonious socialist society, striving to build a society characterized by democracy and the rule of law, fairness and justice, honesty and friendship, vitality, stability and order, and harmony between man and nature. Realizing this task involves all aspects of work, among which the development of health care is an important part.
First, health work is directly related to the vital interests of the broad masses of the people. The Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China regards improving the health quality of the whole nation as one of the goals of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and requires us to "establish a health service system and a medical and health care system that meet the requirements of the new situation, strive to improve the medical and health situation in rural areas, and improve the medical and health care level of urban and rural residents." The Third Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee put forward the idea of overall consideration, people-oriented and comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development. The essence of Theory of Three Represents and Scientific Outlook on Development is that people's interests are above everything else. General Secretary Hu Jintao pointed out that the interests of the masses are no small matter, which requires us to always keep the interests of the masses in mind and try our best to handle the affairs of the masses well. Health work involves thousands of households, people's health and life safety, and is closely related to the vital interests of the broad masses of the people. Doing a good job in health work can effectively safeguard the health rights and interests of the people, otherwise, it will affect or even harm the interests of the people. Governments at all levels, health departments and medical and health workers must always think about the health care problems of the masses, especially low-income people. When formulating policies and measures, we must consider the interests of the masses, whether they can benefit and how much they can benefit. Only in this way can we adhere to the correct direction of health reform and development and adapt to the growing health needs of the broad masses of the people.
Second, health care is closely related to economic and social development. Talent resource is the first resource of the country, and good national health quality is one of the basic conditions for national economic and social development. In old China, the national strength was shrinking and people's livelihood was languishing. One of the reasons is that "Sick Man of East Asia" has been worn for 100 years. From the microscopic point of view, national health quality is the social adaptability of individual physical strength, intelligence and psychology, and from the macroscopic point of view, it is the reflection of a country or region's comprehensive strength. National health quality is the basis of the development of productive forces, the survival and development of workers, the basis of people's intelligence, physical strength and scientific research and development ability, and the important guarantee of social and economic sustainable development. The World Bank once estimated that about 8- 10% of the world economic growth in the past 40 years came from the improvement of people's health level. According to the research of Harvard University, about 30-40% of the miracle of Asian economic development comes from the improvement of people's health in this region. Therefore, developing health undertakings and constantly improving the health quality of the whole nation is not only related to people's health, but also an important foundation for protecting and developing productive forces and promoting economic and social development. On the other hand, improving the health quality of residents is also one of the important purposes of national economic and social development. The fundamental purpose of our socialist modernization is to continuously improve people's material, cultural and health level. The Central Committee has proposed that people-oriented should be adhered to and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people should always be put in the first place. Realizing, safeguarding and developing the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people should be the starting point and the end result of promoting reform, opening up and modernization. One of the important contents is to safeguard the health rights and interests of the masses. General Secretary Hu Jintao pointed out that adhering to the people-oriented principle means that we should aim at the all-round development of people, seek and promote development from the people's fundamental interests, constantly meet people's growing material and cultural needs, and earnestly safeguard people's economic, political and cultural rights and interests. Let the fruits of development benefit all the people, one of the important contents is to let the people enjoy the fruits of economic development through medical and health services. Without health, there is no well-off society; Without health, you will lose everything. Health is the basic rights and interests of the masses and the premise of maintaining normal life and work. Maintaining people's health is an important duty of the government. With the development of social economy, people's demand for health is constantly improving, and the concept of "running well-off and being healthy" is accepted by more and more people. Residents' health has become an important goal of economic and social development, and the national health quality has become a concrete embodiment of material civilization and spiritual civilization construction. It is wrong to think that medical and health care is a consumer industry, and increasing health investment will increase the burden on the government.
Third, the development of medical and health services is an important part of building a harmonious socialist society. General Secretary Hu Jintao put forward the general goal of building a harmonious socialist society, which requires that China's social democracy and legal system are relatively sound, fairness and justice are fully reflected, social groups and organizations are full of vitality, different interests are effectively coordinated, social management and organization are orderly, social order is stable and orderly, and outstanding issues of concern to the people are properly solved. Medical and health care is one of the hot issues of great concern to the society, and it is also one of the outstanding issues that the people have strongly reflected. After the fight against SARS, the Party and the government have paid more attention to health work than ever before. All departments and trades have given unprecedented support to health work, and the people's enthusiasm for developing health undertakings has never been higher. The development of health undertakings is facing unprecedented good opportunities. We should seize the opportunity, speed up development, establish and improve the emergency mechanism for public health emergencies, and effectively deal with public health emergencies caused by major infectious diseases, major food poisoning incidents, major natural disasters and safety accidents; Strengthen the prevention and control of AIDS, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, hepatitis and other major infectious diseases that seriously threaten people's health, and strengthen the prevention and control of malignant tumors, hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and other major diseases that seriously threaten people's lives; Take active and effective measures to solve the problems of "difficult to see a doctor" and "expensive to see a doctor", alleviate the gap in accessibility of medical and health services between urban and rural areas, regions and different income groups, and create a good social environment for building a harmonious socialist society. If these problems are not solved for a long time, the people will have nowhere to treat diseases and no money to treat them, which will damage their health and endanger their lives, and will inevitably affect social fairness, harmony, stability and order.
Fourth, it is an important duty of the government to protect people's health rights and interests. The purpose of our party is to build the party for the public, govern for the people and safeguard the interests of the people. Improving people's health is not only the responsibility of residents and society, but also the responsibility of governments at all levels. Governments at all levels should put the protection of people's health rights and interests in the overall situation of building a harmonious socialist society, ensuring economic development, maintaining social stability and improving the quality of the people, and make overall plans, arrangements and deployments. It is a problem that must be solved seriously to gradually narrow the accessibility gap of medical and health services between urban and rural areas, between regions and between people with different incomes. There is inevitably a certain medical service gap between any society and its members. However, if the gap is too large and is not resolved for a long time, it will inevitably affect the national health quality, social stability and unity and people's confidence in economic and social development. It is the expectation of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to speed up the development of medical and health services and gradually narrow the gap between medical and health services, so that the broad masses of the people can generally enjoy the fruits of reform, opening up and modernization, and feel the warmth of the party and the government.
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