Promoting medical and health institutions to support the development of childcare services will help promote the healthy growth of infants and young children and standardize childcare services. The General Office of the National Health Commission, the General Affairs Department of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the General Affairs Department of the National Administration of Disease Control and Prevention recently jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting Medical and Health Institutions to Support the Development of Childcare Services."
Childcare services are an important part of life-cycle service management. According to the relevant person in charge of the National Health Commission, in recent years, local health departments have actively encouraged medical and health institutions to support the development of childcare services, and strengthened the supervision of childcare institutions in aspects such as infant and young child dietary nutrition, physical development, disease prevention and control, and childcare. Business guidance and personnel training promote the standardized development of childcare services, which is well received by the majority of parents of infants and young children and childcare service practitioners.
The main contents of the guidance include: carrying out order signing services, strengthening child care guidance, giving full play to the unique advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, implementing disease prevention and control responsibilities, improving relevant support policies, strengthening dynamic supervision and management, doing a good job of leading by example, and effectively strengthening the organization lead.
Among them, in terms of order signing services, the guidance proposes that grassroots medical and health institutions use childcare institutions as functional community signing objects, sign service agreements, and adopt methods such as roving guidance or agreement dispatch to carry out infant and child health management services. In terms of strengthening child care guidance, county-level maternal and child health care institutions, grassroots medical and health institutions and childcare institutions are encouraged to establish contact and provide regular door-to-door contact and guidance.
According to reports, in the next step, the National Health Commission, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the State Administration of Disease Control and Prevention will strengthen publicity and interpretation, personnel training, supervision and research, etc., timely study and solve new situations and new problems, and promote various requirements of the guidance Effective on the ground.