Lianyungang City was Awarded National Model City for Healthy City Construction

From: Lianyungang Daily Updated: 2022-10-10 09:20

Recently, the National Health Care Office reported the result of the 2021 National Healthy City Construction Evaluation. Our city was rated as the 2021 National Healthy City Construction Model City, ranking eighth in the country and fourth in the province.

In recent years, our city has attached great importance to the construction of a healthy city, solidly promoted the key tasks of a healthy environment, a healthy society, health services, healthy people and a healthy culture. The level of 42 evaluation indicators has continued to improve, and the level of building a healthy city has continued to improve.

The creation of universal health promotes the improvement of the urban and rural environment. We will take the creation of sanitation as the starting point to comprehensively improve the urban appearance and environmental sanitation. It has become a national health city at a high level, 3 national health counties and 56 national health villages and towns, and the city's sanitation has achieved "all-round victory". The harmless treatment rate of domestic waste in the city is 100%, the number of days with good ambient air quality accounts for 83.8%, and the disease vector density in all streets of the urban area reaches the level of B or above. The urban and rural areas take on a new look.

Building healthy cells and laying a solid foundation for a healthy city. The special action of healthy cells construction was carried out, and "small cells" were integrated into a "big city". The city has built 17 healthy towns, 109 healthy villages, 129 healthy communities and 44 health promotion hospitals. The coverage of healthy communities, healthy schools, and healthy enterprises in the city has reached 38.35%, 99.05% and 29.47% respectively.

Expanding health education channels to improve public health literacy. The three teams of health education lecturers, health promotion volunteers and healthy lifestyle instructors were established in communities, schools and hospitals to extend the tentacles of health education teams to every corner of the society. The health education columns of mainstream media such as TV, newspapers and radio were fully covered, and the health promotion projects such as the smoking cessation contest and the national health knowledge contest were created. The health literacy level of residents in the city reached 33.01%.

Enhancing the ability and improving health services. The construction of grassroots medical and health institutions has been continuously strengthened. Thirty-three municipal and 21 provincial rural regional medical and health centers and community hospitals have been built, and the city has built a "15-minute health service circle". "Payment after diagnosis and treatment (treatment first)" is promoted to remove the pain point of patients' "urgency, difficulty and anxiety". The average life expectancy of the city is 78.32, and the infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate continues to decrease by 2.58 ‰ and 311/100000 respectively.

Improving security measures and building a healthy social system. We have fully implemented the medical assistance policy for people in need, and the minimum payment ratio of the employee medical insurance and the resident medical insurance pooling fund have reached 80% and 65% respectively. The list of food safety responsibilities was introduced to promote the "three responsibilities" to take effect, and food sampling inspection reached 7 batches/1000 people. We adhere to the new model of "online + offline" contests and extensively carry out National Fitness Competition of Lianyungang City. There are 4.87 social sports instructors for every 1000 people, and 40.8% of the people regularly participate in physical exercises.