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Zeng Guang: “Medical detectives” should be cultivated for public health companies of digitization as a tool for epidemic prevention |
China News Service, Shanghai, Nov. 7 (Reporter Zhu Xiaoying) Zeng Guang, a member of the high-level expert group of the National Health Commission and chief epidemiology scientist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said in Shanghai on the 7th that digitization has become the prevention and control of the new corona pneumonia epidemic. One of the tools in the toolbox. In addition to the development of digitization, public health needs to train “medical detectives.”
On the same day, the “Fourth Forum on the Industrial Revolution and Intelligent Medicine” was held at the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai), co-sponsored by the Investment and Technology Promotion Network of the United Nations Organization for Development. Industrial Development, the China News Service and the State Council and Johnson & Johnson China. Zeng Guang made the above statement on the forum.
In his opinion, public health and medical treatment are two different things. Public health focuses on disease prevention and control, and medical care focuses on treatment. Like the wings of an eagle, medical treatment and public health are two wings, and only “flying together” can the goal of health be achieved.
“In 1985, when I was in charge of the national infectious disease epidemic report, I could only see the epidemic data for the last month each month. When the annual meeting was held, everyone came to the meeting with an abacus.” Zeng Guang recalled.
Digitization in China has developed rapidly in recent years. In the opinion of Zeng Guang, in the process of prevention and control of COVID-19, digitization has become one of the tools in the “toolbox” of epidemic prevention: digital methods help experts to find risk factors, such as the gathering of people, the trajectory of people and high-risk travel. People from the region, close contacts, etc.
China is not the first country to propose digitization. Why is China doing a good job in preventing and controlling this epidemic? Zeng Guang believes that China has experience in infectious disease prevention and control in a national system and has made good use of various digital methods.
“But I want to emphasize that digitization is only one of the tools. For example, in the field of public health, it is necessary to train more people with the ability of ‘medical detectives’,” Zeng Guang added.
In response to issues such as infectious disease traceability that are of great concern to the public, “where is the source of infection in the first case”, Zeng Guang said: “It is not clear where is the source of infectious disease infection. Because infectious diseases evolve in nature., I don’t know how many years have passed, or how many animals have passed. Only when it evolves stronger and stronger, it finally invades humans and spreads, we find out. Right now, we want to trace its story immediately Very difficult. “
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