Expert interpretation on the Technical Guidelines for the Joint Prevention of Common Disease Multimorbidity among Students
Common diseases among students such as myopia,overweight and obesity,scoliosis,and mental health problems are prevalent,which usually exist concurrently under similar public health influencing factors.Therefore,there is a need to carry out the joint prevention of multimorbidity.The National Disease Control and Prevention Administration of China have organize the devel-opment of the Technical Guidelines for the Joint Prevention of Common Disease Multimorbidity among Students(hereafter referred to as the Guidelines).For the first time,the Guidelines clarifies the concept of multimorbidity joint prevention,specifies that the de-partments of centers for disease control and prevention should strengthen environmental and behavioral surveillance,proposes inte-grated public health interventions for multimorbidity joint prevention based on a three tiered prevention strategy,and recommends the appropriate technology of a healthy lifestyle featuring six key principles.It also advocates exploring the establishment of a six-in-one model(government-professional institution-community-school-family-students collaboration)for multimorbidity joint preven-tion,which has achieved a leap in theory and practice in the prevention and control of common diseases among students.The article focuses on the background,theoretical basis and core content of the Guidelines,in order to improve the understanding of the Guide-lines by professionals in public health institutions and people concerned about students'health,and to promote the application and dissemination of the Guidelines.