Can many local diseases in my country meet the control or elimination standards. Can it be identified as elimination?Authoritative response is here

At the press conference of the "All for the Health of the People -Our Ten Years" series of press conferences held by the National Health and Health Commission on September 16, Xiong Huang, a first -level inspector of the State CDC, said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country has achieved the phased goals of key local disease control. As of the end of 2021, 2799 iodine deficiency counties in the country, 379 large bone festivals, and counties, 330 Keshan pathogenesis and counties, 171 coal -fired pollution -type fluoride poisoning ward and county, 12 coal -fired pollution arsenic poisoning The ward and county, 122 water -type arsenic poisoning ward or high arsenic district and counties have reached control or elimination standards, and the standard rate is 100 %.

For the social concern that is distinguished from "elimination" and "eliminating", Sun Dianjun, chairman of the National Disease Prevention Expert Advisory Committee, pointed out that from epidemiology, the definition of the two is different. Elimination refers to adopting effective prevention and control measures in one area or country to control or reduce a disease to a relatively low level specified in advance, and it will not become the main public health issue in this region or the country. Destruction is to clarify the cause and transmission pathway of this disease, take effective strategies and measures, completely eradicate the disease, completely control all the pathogenic factors that produce the disease, completely remove it from our environment, so that this disease will be in the future It won't happen again. At present, a disease that has been destroyed is ceiling.

According to reports, my country's local disease monitoring system has been continuously improved, and the monitoring network covering all the ward and counties across the country has been built. 2562 county -level laboratories across the country can carry out urinary iodine testing, 1,523 counties have thyroid B -ultrasound examination capabilities, 694 counties have fluorosidosis examination capabilities, 130 counties have arsenic poisoning diagnosis capacity, 289 counties have grams Mountain disease examination capacity, 290 counties have the ability to check and diagnosis of large bone section, providing important guarantees for timely grasp of dynamic changes in the disease, the implementation of measures, the effect of prevention and control measures, and adjusting the prevention and control strategy. At the same time, the disease prevention and poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation tasks are completed simultaneously, and patients with poor local diseases are incorporated into social security systems such as subsistence allowances, disability evaluation, and free policies for surgical treatment subsidies and drug treatment. rule. Among the national poverty -stricken counties, all local diseases and counties have reached the control of control and elimination, and the standard rate is 100 %. (Guangming Daily All Media Reporter Jin Zhenya)

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