“Guarding the Thyroid and Enhancing Her Strength” 2023 International Thyroid Knowledge Promotion Week kicks off-Health Home-Northern Network

“Women are a group of people with high incidence of thyroid disease, and the prevalence rate is higher than that of men. We must pay attention to the harm of thyroid disease to women, improve relevant awareness, strengthen early diagnosis and screening, and help women’s thyroid health.” On May 25th, the launch meeting of the 15th International Thyroid Knowledge Publicity Week was held in Beijing, co-organized by the Endocrinology Society of the Chinese Medical Association and the Thyroid Disease Prevention and Control Professional Committee of the China Population Culture Promotion Association, and supported by Merck Public Welfare. The theme of the knowledge publicity week is “Protecting the Thyroid and Enhancing Her Strength”. At the scene, the representatives of the participating experts called for strengthening the popular science education on thyroid health, improving the public’s awareness of thyroid diseases, especially raising women’s awareness of thyroid disease prevention, strengthening early screening and diagnosis, and helping the prevention and treatment of thyroid diseases.

The 2023 International Thyroid Knowledge Promotion Week and the 2023 Thyroid Health Knowledge Popularization Action are launched.

Caring about “her health” early screening and early diagnosis is the key

At present, “her power” is shining in various fields. While feeling “her power”, we should also care about “her health”. Thyroid disease, in particular, is more common in women. Whether it is hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, thyroid nodules, or thyroid tumors, the prevalence rate of women is much higher than that of men. In this regard, strengthening early screening and early diagnosis of thyroid diseases in female groups is the key.

Shan Zhongyan, vice chairman of the Endocrinology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, said that thyroid cancer is a cancer with a rapidly rising incidence rate, and the incidence of thyroid cancer in women is faster than that in men. If women of childbearing age suffer from thyroid diseases without effective treatment Increased risk of pregnancy complications. In addition, the onset of thyroid disease is hidden and difficult to be discovered. Most patients are not sure that they have thyroid disease before undergoing an examination. It is easy to delay the disease due to missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis, which endangers women’s health.

“Attention should be paid to women’s thyroid health, and early recognition, early screening, early diagnosis and early treatment of thyroid diseases should be strengthened.” Shan Zhongyan suggested that women who are planning to conceive and pregnant should be screened for thyroid diseases. In addition, women who have a second child or more, are older than 30 years old and have autoimmune diseases, first-degree relatives have autoimmune thyroid diseases, and have a history of neck and thyroid radiation are all high-risk groups for thyroid diseases, and thyroid function should be screened early . In order to protect the thyroid health of women of childbearing age and their offspring, my country has launched the “National Free Pre-pregnancy Eugenics Health Examination Project”, which includes thyroid-related inspections into the free screening indicators to protect the thyroid health of women of childbearing age.

Li Changning, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the China Health Education Center, delivered a speech.

Li Changning, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the China Health Education Center, pointed out that through health education, the public can master the knowledge of thyroid disease prevention and control, develop good health behavior habits, reduce the occurrence of thyroid diseases, and realize early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment of thyroid diseases .

Wu Jing, director of the Center for Chronic Diseases of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, believes that the incidence of thyroid-related chronic diseases has been on the rise in recent years. risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Early screening, early diagnosis and early treatment are the key measures to reduce the harm of thyroid diseases.

It is very important to increase the awareness rate and strengthen science popularization

Do a good job in the popularization of health knowledge, so that everyone realizes that they are the first person responsible for health, and it is a booster to improve residents’ self-health management ability and health level. Thyroid disease is a serious health hazard to women and their offspring. Therefore, improving the awareness of thyroid disease is of great significance for improving the health status of related groups.

“The party and the government attach great importance to people’s health and vigorously promote the construction of a healthy China.” Li Changning said, “In recent years, the health literacy of Chinese residents has continued to improve, especially since the implementation of the healthy China strategy. There is still a certain gap between the goals proposed in the “Healthy China 2030″ Planning Outline, and there are imbalances between urban and rural areas, regions, and different dimensions, and it is necessary to further strengthen health education and health science popularization.” Li Changning proposed to improve The effect of health communication should be guided by the needs of the public and health problems, follow the principles of scientific accuracy and application, carefully study the health needs and cognitive characteristics of different groups of people, and adopt appropriate communication strategies and methods to carry out health communication.

“There are many patients with thyroid dysfunction in my country, but the general public’s awareness of thyroid disease is low, and the overall standardized treatment rate is still insufficient.” Wu Jing suggested that all sectors of society should be mobilized to popularize thyroid health knowledge and promote chronic disease science popularization Education, popularizing authoritative health science knowledge to thousands of households, improving community residents’ awareness of core knowledge about thyroid disease and other chronic diseases, improving the health literacy of the whole people, and serving women’s health.

“Iodine is closely related to thyroid diseases. Excessive or insufficient iodine will affect thyroid health. To correctly understand thyroid diseases and pay attention to thyroid health, you must learn how to use iodine scientifically.” Honorary chairman of the Endocrinology Society of the Chinese Medical Association, Asia-Pacific Region Thyroid Teng Weiping, vice chairman of the society, popularized the relationship between iodine intake and thyroid diseases from the perspective of scientific use of iodine. He suggested that the awareness of scientific use of iodine should be improved, and the methods of scientific iodine supplementation should be learned, so as to prevent iodine deficiency and avoid the harm caused by iodine excess.

Participants spoke online and offline. (Teng Weiping, Shan Zhongyan, Wu Jing in the upper row from left, Liu Junfeng, Lin Yansong, Ma Tianrong in the lower row from left)

“In recent years, the Thyroid Disease Prevention and Control Professional Committee of the China Population Culture Promotion Association has continued to carry out thyroid health-related science popularization work.” Lin Yansong, chairman of the Thyroid Disease Prevention and Control Professional Committee of the China Population Culture Promotion Association, said that the special committee will cooperate with the People’s Good Doctor platform, etc. We will carry out the “Thyroid Health Knowledge Popularization Action” with the goal of disseminating high-quality popular science content to grassroots medical institutions and chain drugstores. With the help of public accounts, electronic screens and other channels, through professional and interesting science popularization, strengthen the public, especially the grassroots areas. The understanding and awareness of thyroid diseases can improve the public’s comprehensive health literacy and help realize “Healthy China 2030”.

Play a professional role in promoting thyroid health

Health education and health promotion are identified by the World Health Organization as one of the three strategic measures for disease prevention and control in the 21st century, and are economical and effective fundamental measures to improve public health. To improve the social thyroid health level, it is necessary to guide professional forces to play a professional role. Clinical medical personnel are the most authoritative health content providers. They must play the role of the “main force” of health science popularization among medical personnel, and at the same time guide social professional forces to actively participate in providing the people with More health science popularization resources to help the Healthy China Action.

“Healthy China Action (2019-2030)” lists the health knowledge popularization action as the first of the 15 major actions, and proposes to persist in popularizing health knowledge and improving the health literacy level of the whole people. Liu Junfeng, director of the Office of the Medical Management Center of the National Health Commission, shared the measures taken by local governments to encourage medical staff to carry out popular science work. He said that at present, many places incorporate health science popularization into the evaluation of medical personnel’s professional titles. Shanghai clearly pointed out that “the institutionalization of health science popularization should be strengthened, and the work of medical staff health science popularization should be included in the work performance assessment content.” review”. Beijing has also included popular science works in the list of representative works for professional title evaluation. At the same time, the frequency of health education and health promotion has gradually become an important content in the evaluation of professional titles of grassroots health professionals.

“Health science popularization needs to be practiced by all sectors of society.” Liu Junfeng said that the Medical Management Center of the National Health Commission actively participated in the work of health science popularization and carried out a series of exploration practices, including publishing science popularization content through the official account of the “National Medical Management Center” to support participation “Internet + Healthy China” Science Popularization Contest, etc.

“The popularization of thyroid science must be carried out not only from bottom to top, but also from top to bottom.” Lin Yansong emphasized, “It is very important to carry out popular science education to grassroots county hospitals, and actively help grassroots and young doctors to improve their professional level. Lay a solid foundation for better dissemination of popular science knowledge.”

“There is a long way to go to promote the scientific prevention, diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases, as well as the rational use of drugs, which requires the cooperation of all parties.” said Ma Tianrong, head of cardiometabolic and endocrinology medical affairs at Merck China Medical Health, “In the field of thyroid diseases, Merck He has been actively committed to the scientific prevention and treatment of diseases for many years, and has helped the development of scientific prevention and treatment of thyroid diseases in China by carrying out various forms of thyroid science education projects.”

At the meeting, the guests also jointly launched the “Thyroid Health Knowledge Science Popularization Action”, and called on all sectors of society to participate in the thyroid science popularization action, so as to deepen the science popularization among the people, so that the public can obtain authoritative, scientific, and Interesting and popular medical science knowledge.