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Take Various Measures to Improve Health Literacy of Citizens

2020-10-11

 

Recently, the reporter learned from the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention that in order to improve the health literacy level of citizens, our city has taken a number of measures to carry out health education in schools, street communities, industry units and other key places.

 

Children are the future of the motherland, it is very important to improve the health literacy of minors. Therefore, since 2009, our city has included the health education curriculum into the school teaching plan. At present, all primary and secondary schools in urban areas have set up health education courses, equipped with full-time health education teachers and unified health education textbooks. The primary and secondary schools in our city also regularly hold lectures on health education knowledge for students, conduct a health education knowledge test once a semester, and carry out campus health education in the form of bulletin boards, lectures and consultation, so as to cultivate students' good health behavior. At present, the awareness rate of health knowledge and the formation rate of health behavior of primary and secondary school students in urban area have reached the requirements of the 13th Five-Year Plan.

 

Street and community health education plays a key role in urban health education network system. In order to improve the health literacy of residents in the streets and communities, all streets and communities in the city carry out various forms of health education activities for the units and residents in the districts through the medical and health institutions and part-time health education counselors in their districts, and make full use of the community citizen schools and various health theme publicity days to carry out disease prevention knowledge popularization, and increase the prevention of AIDS, tuberculosis and chronic diseases propaganda. At the same time, we should carry out the healthy lifestyle work in the community, and form a three-dimensional environment to support the healthy lifestyle through the ways of family transmission, less help for the elderly, and the development of volunteer team.

 

Health education in industry units is not only the focus but also the difficulty of health education. In order to strengthen the health education work of industry units, all industry units in the city regularly organize and carry out health education activities such as occupational disease prevention, disease prevention, health care and tobacco control according to their own characteristics. The city also uses theme publicity days, health education bulletin boards, holidays and other migrant workers return home to carry out various forms of health education publicity activities, and through regular door-to-door occupational health training, to improve the health awareness and occupational disease prevention awareness of employees.