As early as the Second Revolutionary Civil War, the Party took organizing the military and civilians to carry out mass health campaigns and doing a good job in health and disease prevention as a major event related to the success or failure of the revolution. 1933, Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out in the article "Investigation in Changgang Township": "Disease is the enemy in the Soviet area because it weakens our strength. Like Changgang Township, it is the responsibility of every township Soviet to carry out public health campaigns to reduce or even eliminate diseases. "

During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, the government of Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region listed the health campaign in the whole region as the policy agenda. 194 1 year, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region set up an epidemic prevention Committee to carry out a military-civilian health campaign centered on killing flies and rats and preventing plague and cholera. From 65438 to 0949, we carried out the policy of putting prevention first in health work and continued to carry out mass health campaigns. 1949- 1952, that is, during the period of national economic recovery, in order to change the unsanitary situation and the serious epidemic of infectious diseases in old China, mass health campaigns were widely carried out throughout the country.

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Looking back on the healthy development of patriotic health movement in the past 60 years, the key lies in implementing the policy of putting prevention first; Take the road of combining patriotic health campaign with the masses; Implement a grassroots and community-oriented approach; Act in accordance with scientific principles and the spirit of seeking truth from facts. To prevent diseases and ensure health, we should not only pay attention to personal hygiene, but also pay attention to public hygiene to improve individual immunity.

At the same time, it is necessary to improve group immunity and form a group immune barrier. Everyone talks about hygiene, "be proud of hygiene and be ashamed of unsanitary". It has far-reaching significance in developing spiritual civilization and material civilization, changing customs and transforming society. Patriotic health movement is the embodiment of this advanced medical scientific thought.

Combining health work with the masses, leading by the government, participating by the masses and taking the mass line are the fine traditions of health work in China. It is necessary to extensively carry out health education, enhance people's awareness of self-care, cultivate good health habits and public health ethics, and form a social fashion that stresses hygiene and loves cleanliness.

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