Three aspects of ＂listing＂ of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention： the upgrading of disease control under the epidemic examination

Xinhua News Agency reported on May 13th that the National Bureau for Disease Control and Prevention was officially listed on the same day, which was a major event in the development history of disease control in China. What signals does the listing convey? Why should the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention be set up? What impact will it bring to China’s epidemic prevention and control work?

Major measures: building a strong public health system

At present, mankind is still facing the threat of emerging infectious diseases. The establishment of the National Bureau for Disease Control and Prevention is a key step for the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to deepen the reform of the disease control system, an important guarantee for protecting people’s health and maintaining public health safety, and is conducive to improving the mechanism of combining prevention with control, joint prevention and control, and group prevention and control.

The National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention is under the management of the National Health and Wellness Commission, and is a deputy ministerial-level institution. After its establishment, it mainly undertakes five functions, including formulating draft laws and regulations, policies, plans and standards for the prevention and control of infectious diseases and public health supervision, and national immunization planning; Guide the construction of disease prevention and control system, plan and supervise the disease control work of infectious disease medical institutions and other medical institutions; Plan and guide the construction of epidemic monitoring and early warning system, and be responsible for the response to infectious diseases; Guide the construction of scientific research system for disease control; Public health supervision and management, infectious disease prevention and control supervision, and improve the comprehensive health supervision system.

According to the information released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security a few days ago, Wang He is qualified as the director of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention. Wang Hesheng was previously the deputy director of the National Health and Wellness Committee and a member of the Party Group, and was responsible for the reform of the medical and health system, medical administration and medical management. After the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, Wang Hesheng went to the front line to guide the epidemic prevention and control.

An epidemic in COVID-19 that has never happened in a hundred years makes us realize that prevention and control in place is the key to curb the spread of the epidemic, and establishing a disease prevention and control system is an important part of achieving the results of the war. The establishment of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention means working hard from the top design, which marks the transformation of the functions of disease control institutions from simply preventing and controlling diseases to comprehensively safeguarding and promoting the health of the whole population. Building a systematic disease control institution is a kind of overall planning, which can not only improve the ability to deal with infectious diseases, but also help to promote the concept change from "treating the disease" to "preventing the disease".

System reconstruction, prevention first, scientific prevention and control.

Looking around the world, the epidemic situation in COVID-19 is still raging, with explosive growth in many countries and rapid increase in some countries, which once again sounded the alarm for us. The prevention and control of the epidemic situation in COVID-19 is far from over. In this context, although China has made hard-won anti-epidemic achievements in epidemic prevention and control, it is still necessary to realize that the prevention and control of COVID-19 epidemic is difficult, complex, repetitive and long-term.

The disease prevention and control system is inseparable from the major epidemic treatment system, which runs through infectious disease monitoring, early warning, epidemiological investigation and other links. It is an important barrier to protect people’s health and life safety, and is the "main battlefield" for major epidemic prevention and control.

China’s disease prevention and control system has been running for nearly 70 years, which has played an irreplaceable role in the response to major infectious diseases and public health emergencies and made important contributions to national health.

However, with the changes of the times, the past prevention and control system has been unable to effectively cope with the complex and ever-changing public health security situation. Viruses will mutate, and prevention and control need to be upgraded. The prevention and control of upgrading needs professional, scientific and refined technology and service support.

An important function of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention is to guide the construction of scientific research system for disease control, which shows the importance of asking for answers and methods from science.

In recent years, every year, disease control systems at all levels have brain drain and can’t recruit suitable personnel, and the brain drain is dominated by highly educated and young and middle-aged backbones. These problems are transmitted to colleges and universities, which have a negative impact on the training of public health talents. Many students majoring in public health are unwilling to engage in public health work after graduation.

The reporter learned from the authoritative department that the listing of the National Bureau for Disease Control and Prevention will establish a fully functional disease control network, establish a public health emergency team by classification, innovate the coordination mechanism of medical prevention, strengthen the professional support of scientific research, and improve the decision-making consultation system. Actively develop scientific research forces and find answers and methods from the source. The establishment of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention is to form a benign talent environment and attract high-quality talents.

People-centered: Weaving Tightly and Tightly the Prevention and Control System

We need to be soberly aware that there are still shortcomings and deficiencies in the system and mechanism of major epidemic prevention and control and the public health emergency management system in this sudden COVID-19 epidemic examination, and the concept of "paying more attention to medical treatment than prevention" still exists, and the public health emergency cooperation mechanism needs to be further improved.

The establishment of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention is to make up for the shortcomings of prevention and control, to weave a dense prevention and control system, to be less at a loss when dealing with public health emergencies, and to be more calm when dealing with complex epidemics. Consolidate the foundation of grassroots public health and improve the disease control network with integrated urban and rural areas, up and down linkage and complete functions.

At the same time, human beings are facing more and more challenges of infectious diseases. For a big country with a population of 1.4 billion, it is urgent to strengthen the construction of disease prevention and control system. The establishment of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention will help to strengthen public health emergency management and accelerate the construction of multi-channel monitoring and early warning mechanism.

The solemn commitment of taking people’s health as the center is embodied in every major measure to ensure people’s life safety and health, and in every strategic decision to ensure the overall security of the country, which is an important guarantee to consolidate the healthy foundation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The establishment of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention is the practical need to comprehensively promote healthy China, which will accelerate the remedy of shortcomings in the public health system, set a footnote for the system theory of medical reform in China, and give full play to the power of disease control personnel in practice.

(The original title is "Xinhua All Media+Three Aspects of" Listing "of the National Bureau for Disease Control and Prevention: Upgrading of Disease Control under the Epidemic Examination")