Recently, the Self-Health Management Branch of the China Health Promotion and Education Association was established in Beijing, and 76 experts from various fields such as public health, clinical, pharmacy, and communication formed the first committee. Lai Jianqiang, chairman of the Self-Health Management Branch, said that the branch will aim to "integrate resources, empower the public, and collaborative innovation", and focus on promoting the core work of building an academic exchange platform, deepening popular science communication, and building a collaborative service system. At the roundtable after the establishment ceremony, experts from the first committee of the branch expressed their opinions and actively provided relevant opinions and suggestions for promoting self-health management.

The Self-Health Management Branch and multiple professional institutions jointly released the "Joint Initiative to Strengthen and Promote Self-Health Management" at the establishment meeting, advocating all sectors of society to jointly help the public to carry out active self-health management and help the public be the first responsible person for their own health.

Establishment ceremony site

Kong Lingzhi, executive vice president and secretary-general of the China Health Promotion and Education Association, said that as people's demand for health continues to increase, the contradiction between the increasing public's health needs and limited health service resources will continue to exist for a long time, helping the public be the first responsible person for their own health, which is of long-term significance for coordinating social resources and promoting public health. Self-health management shoulders an important historical mission in this regard.

According to reports, many current health policies reflect the transformation from "treatment-centered" to "people's health-centered" strategy, focusing on targeted health promotion and education based on the characteristics of different groups of people. The new version of 66 health literacy items also further strengthens the relevant content of self-health management, emphasizing the self-health management of chronic diseases, as well as practical skills such as the identification and use of common medicines in individuals and families.

Bai Yansong, a commentator at CCTV and a health knowledge propagandist at China Health Knowledge Dissemination Incentive Program, said that an important mission of self-health management is to promote the transformation from the dissemination of ideas to the dissemination of behaviors. In the past, people would regard health as a goal and a happiness, but self-health management means completing a task, which means "health is a ability", allowing everyone to manage their health with knowledge, ability and purpose.

"Joint Initiative to Strengthen the Promotion of Self-Health Management" is released

On the same day, the Self-Health Management Branch of the China Health Promotion and Education Association, in conjunction with the Health Communication Branch of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, the Age Communication Branch of the Chinese Gerontology and the Age Communication Branch of the Geriatrics Association and other professional institutions jointly issued the "Joint Initiative to Strengthen the Promotion of Self-Health Management", which advocated that all sectors carry out relevant policy exchanges and theoretical research to provide strong support for the implementation of the concept of "Everyone is the first person in charge of his health"; build a collaborative platform, strengthen cross-field and interdisciplinary cooperation; develop appropriate tools to provide more and more practical tools for empowering the public; strengthen popular science communication and health knowledge training to help improve public health literacy and self-health management capabilities; pay attention to and promote technological innovation, and strengthen cutting-edge technologies to help the public's self-health management exploration and application.

[Editor in charge: Sun Hui]