From wearing masks, maintaining social distance, and doing good personal hygiene “three-piece epidemic prevention”, to nucleic acid testing, vaccination, Antigen self-test, the “new crown” epidemic that lasted for more than two years has become a test of the health literacy level of the whole people, and has promoted a substantial improvement in the level of health literacy, and has also promoted continuous breakthroughs in medical research and technological development. Relevant data released by the National Health and Health Commission shows that the health literacy level of the national residents affected by the “new crown” epidemic will reach 23.15% in 2020, an increase of 3.98 percentage points over 2019, the largest increase in history.
The past two years of anti-epidemic and anti-epidemic experience tell us that improving overall health literacy is the key to the public. Building a sense of trust, correctly understanding the epidemic prevention measures, scientifically improving the protection concept, and the cornerstone of effectively fighting the virus can become the “protective clothing” for public health. Under the same logic, it is precisely the main way for citizens to obtain medical science information through authoritative channels to improve their health literacy and actively use modern medical methods to improve their own health.
According to the requirements of the “Healthy China 2030” Planning Outline issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council in October 2016 , the health literacy of residents will increase from 6.48% in 2008 to 30% in 2030. Even though the overall health literacy level has reached 23.15% in 2020, we still have a long way to go before the 2030 phased goal.
Facing such a goal, at the just-concluded 2022 Tencent Medical ME Conference (hereinafter referred to as “ME Conference” ), authoritative experts and scholars from different medical fields came to the stage for the first time to popularize knowledge about cervical cancer and cardiovascular disease to the public, and also shared the latest prospects of fighting the epidemic through medical technology research.
width=”600″> In addition to a lot of medical and health information, the public popularization of experts and scholars at the conference let us know that in the face of diseases and epidemics, there are still many “stocks” in the “arsenal” of human science and technology, and the continuous advancement of medical research is very important. It has the potential to add new leverage to our victory over disease and outbreaks, and it also gives people confidence in the future.
I have to admit that to improve the overall level of national health literacy, it is necessary to provide people with more channels to obtain health information, form a correct understanding of various information, and even use this information to maintain and promote the ability and basic quality of one’s own health—this is why experts such as Wang Chen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, president of Peking Union Medical College, and other experts at the ME Conference One of the reasons for a public outreach.
In fact, more and more top medical experts are starting to stand on the stage of medical science popularization. In this ME conference, many academicians and famous doctors shared the cutting-edge medical progress in their respective fields, many of which were original research or treatment plans recommended by international guidelines. While completing the mission of public science, these sharings also bring new hope to patients in China and around the world.
As the only Chinese expert in the WHO Director-General’s Expert Committee on Cancer Prevention and Control, Qiao Youlin introduced his pioneering work at the conference. CareHPV cervical cancer rapid screening technology, the cost of this technology is only 1/10 of the technology commonly used in developed countries, and has obtained the global pass of the World Health Organization. Under his promotion, the HPV vaccine was successfully launched in China, making China the third country in the world to successfully develop and produce HPV vaccines.
Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases occupy the first place in the threat to national life and health. Huo Yong, a professor at Peking University First Hospital, brought a popular science on “Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction” at the ME Conference. Also driven by his collaboration with other parties, my country has built a global acute myocardial infarction rescue network, with more than 5,000 hospitals establishing chest pain centers, covering 90% of prefecture-level cities and more than 75% of counties nationwide. He hoped that more patients could be treated effectively within the golden 120 minutes of onset, and hoped that the “inflection point” of the decline in the incidence of cardiovascular disease in China would come soon.
Beijing Union Medical College Qiao Youlin
Professor Huo Yong, Peking University First Hospital
It is under the popular science of these experts that the public has learned a lot of very necessary medical knowledge.
According toWu Wenda, a former clinician and head of Tencent Medical Code, introduced that taking common colds as an example, each person will have an average of 200 colds in their lifetime, and more than 60% of people believe that antibiotics can treat colds or flu. But in fact, 80%-90% of colds are caused by viral infections. Antibiotics can only deal with bacterial infections and do not have much effect on viruses. Viral colds are actually “self-limiting diseases”. Most people are not immune-compromised and do not need special treatment. They can recover by their own immunity.
For another example, in recent years, the mortality rate of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in my country is still on the rise, and a large Part of the reason is poor control of diseases such as high blood pressure. Many hypertensive patients have a serious medication misunderstanding, often stopping the medication as soon as the blood pressure drops to normal levels. Unbeknownst to many of these patients, taking medication is not only for blood pressure control, but also for reducing the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and death. This is the source of the saying “three-month magic” in the field of medicine. No matter how good the medicine is, few patients can take the medicine for more than three months. This kind of poor compliance makes the treatment of many chronic diseases ineffective.
So, knowing some medical science can not only help patients develop a sense of health and self-management, but even save lives at critical times : Knowing Heimlich’s method can quickly rescue when food gets stuck; learning to use AED (automatic external defibrillator) can also save life from death when cardiac arrest occurs…
In fact, popular science is not just a ME conference, but also permeates the daily bits of information, but in the process , we often find that rumors run faster than science, how to crack this?
Academician Wang Chen believes that the Internet can make more contributions to correct medical science. He said that the development of the Internet has provided a link for the transformation between medicine and public health: on the one hand, people can obtain the knowledge they need through the Internet, and actively maintain and promote health based on medical principles; The ability of professionals to discuss communication. The Internet helps facilitate the formation of a new kind of human relationship.
“The first thing we do is to build an authoritative medical knowledge base on the Internet, so that authoritative medical Popular science takes the wings of the Internet and runs away from rumors. This is also the original intention of Tencent Medical Code, so that science can take root on the Internet.” In Wu Wenda’s view, Internet medical science popularization can achieve both authoritative professionalism and fun and vividness.
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President of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, President of Peking Union Medical College Wang Chen
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It is understood that as a Tencent medical science popularization platform, Tencent Medical Code has gathered more than 5,000 national Famous clinicians and more than 100 top experts including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Medical Association, provide the public with more than 10,000 disease entries and authoritative popularization of the entire diagnosis and treatment process. At the same time, it also cooperates with authoritative organizations such as the China Population Publicity and Education Center of the National Health and Medical Commission, and the News Center of the State Food and Drug Administration to help build a knowledge base for national health.
It is true. Professionally, Internet popular science can replicate the editorial and review system at the academic journal level: restore real medical and life scenarios for content planning, gather authoritative medical experts for content production, and then conduct multi-level content review by doctors and editors, and conduct content review according to the latest medical progress. Feedback with users to iterate on content; in terms of fun and vividness, it can transform advanced knowledge into a catchy expression of “Cefs with wine, just go”. Using medical illustrations and 3D videos, users can see professional knowledge at a glance in the way of “one illustration and one hundred meanings”. Through the live broadcast of doctors and patient stories, the transmission of popular science can increase the fun of interaction and warm humanistic care.
From a larger perspective, the medical science popularized by academicians such as Wang Chen at the ME conference not only It is a large-scale medical general education class and enlightenment class aimed at the general public. It is also telling many medical workers that science should be used as a “long-term prescription” prescribed by themselves, and the public can see that on the issue of health, Everyone is a beneficiary and disseminator of popular science knowledge.