On December 10, the National Health Commission held a press conference to introduce the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases in winter and answer questions.
Xia Gang, director of the Department of Health and Immunization of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, said that after the elderly and other high-risk groups are infected with influenza, the probability of serious complications is higher, and influenza vaccination can not only reduce infection, but also effectively reduce the risk of severe disease and death, so the elderly are always the focus of influenza vaccination. The State encourages all localities to continue to exert efforts in terms of the form of publicity, the content of publicity, and the venues of publicity, in light of the characteristics of the elderly population, to continuously increase the intensity of publicity on vaccination, and to popularize popular science knowledge about vaccination. In terms of the form of publicity, we should pay attention to the joint role of new and traditional products. For the elderly and their families who are not familiar with network equipment, they are mainly popularized through new and self-popular publicity platforms. For the elderly who are not proficient in the use of network equipment, they mainly use traditional publicity platforms such as radio and television, newspapers and periodicals, and community bulletin boards to produce health science popularization programs, health publicity columns, publicity leaflets, etc., as well as hold health lectures, etc., to widely publicize science popularization. From the perspective of publicity content, focus on the issues that the elderly are most concerned about, carry out targeted science popularization, and do a good job of resolving doubts and doubts. In terms of publicity venues, we should focus on places where the elderly often carry out activities, such as communities and squares, as well as medical institutions, and organize community volunteers and medical personnel to carry out popular science publicity and face-to-face consultation for the elderly.
Xia Gang said that in view of the impaired mobility of the elderly, we have guided all localities to provide convenient and efficient influenza vaccination services for the elderly by setting up "green channels" for the elderly, setting up special vaccination sites for the elderly, and setting up temporary vaccination points by mobile vaccination vehicles.
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