Health is not just medical

Regarding health management, everyone understands the principle of "prevention first", but many people do not know where to start.

There is an urgent need to build an autonomous disease prevention knowledge system

Distinguishing the two stages of health management, "before illness" and "after illness", is the key to grasping the initiative of health

Post-ill health management has a knowledge system, and this knowledge system is modern medicine

There is no complete knowledge system for pre-morbid health management

"Before the disease" and "after the disease" are two different stages, requiring two knowledge systems.

Constructing the Knowledge System of Disease Prevention from Various Aspects

How to name this body of knowledge? From a traditional point of view, it can be called health preservation, but the concept of health preservation includes the post-illness stage, which is not accurate enough; from an essential point of view, it can be called health science.

How to determine the definition of preventive medicine? From the relational dimension, disease prevention is a knowledge system that studies the relationship between etiology and body health; from the functional dimension, disease prevention is a knowledge system to study and solve disease prevention problems; from the essential dimension, disease prevention It is a knowledge system to study how the body does not get sick; from the perspective of occurrence, it is a knowledge system to study and reveal the formation and inhibition of etiology

How to build a system of disease prevention? On the whole, human pathogenic factors mainly include heredity, environment, eating, body temperature, dynamics, and mentality.

From another point of view, the above six aspects are the construction of the second-level discipline content of disease prevention, and the third-level and fourth-level disciplines can be derived from this, thus forming a complete knowledge system

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, from the simple to the complex, from the part to the whole, the basic framework of the food science of disease prevention has been established, and it will be a complete system through continuous combination and iteration

　　Contribute Chinese wisdom to building a community of human health

　　Disease prevention is the upstream of health management, and disease treatment is the downstream of health management

　　The mission of disease prevention is to keep individuals healthy, live longer, and die without disease

　　With the support of traditional Chinese health preservation culture, the urgent appeal of the people for healthy life, the guidance of the national "Healthy China" strategy, and the active participation of experts and scholars in related fields, it is feasible to build a knowledge system of disease prevention

　　Disease prevention is the protagonist and grasper of "prevention first"

　　If we say that the modern medical knowledge system mainly constructed by European and American scholars in the 20th century has made great contributions to the cause of human health

　　(The author is Liu Guangwei, director of the Food Policy Research Center of Renmin University of China)