June 6th this year is the 26th National “Eye Day”. This year’s theme is “Focus on General Eye Health”. On June 5th, the Municipal Health Commission, the Municipal Education Commission, and the Municipal Sports Bureau jointly organized a publicity event on the theme of “Love Eye Day—Speech for EYE” to widely publicize the knowledge of vision health throughout the life cycle.
This year’s event focused on the two major groups of children, adolescents and the elderly, and comprehensively popularized science on the prevention and control of eye diseases such as myopia, cataracts, and fundus diseases, so as to increase citizens’ awareness of visual health. This event will be a combination of online and offline, interacting with the “Eye Day” activities in Fujian, Guangxi, Ningxia and other places.
At the same time, the “eyes” sun bathing children and adolescents in pursuit of a century of red journey, the creation of a demonstration model for children and adolescents’ myopia smart intervention model, the launching ceremony of the Torch Eye and Bright Eyes Medical Fund Project, and a sound theme concert for “EYE”. The event site also set up a “five senses + technology” experience area for vision, taste, touch, smell and hearing, including AI-enabled eye screening, etc., to organize daily eye health knowledge and various special activities to enhance residents Attention to visual health.
In recent years, the city has continuously strengthened multi-departmental cooperation, integrated resources, optimized the system, expanded services, strengthened management, and further improved the city’s visual health service management capabilities. The rate of cataract surgery for one million people in Shanghai has been leading for a long time, and the prevalence of active trachoma in children has also been at a low level for a long time.
The health department strives to build a comprehensive visual health service management system, establishes the Shanghai Visual Health Center (Shanghai Children and Adolescent Myopia Prevention and Treatment Technology Center), and continuously improves the city-district-community three-level visual health prevention intervention and standardized diagnosis and treatment network , Eye disease prevention and treatment, primary eye care service capacity and level are leading in the country. At the same time, we will continue to promote comprehensive visual health services covering people of different ages. Continue to optimize adult vision health services, strengthen eye disease screening management in conjunction with chronic disease patient follow-up management, and establish an artificial intelligence-enabled community screening model to provide support for early screening, early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment of eye diseases. Continue to strengthen the prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents, establish a monitoring system for children’s refractive development at the city and district levels, and create a file for children’s refractive development. In 2020, 4-18 pairs of children and adolescents in the kindergarten and school will be basically tested for refractive and visual acuity. cover. Continue to care for vulnerable groups such as blind and low vision patients, and optimize and improve the mechanism of blind and low vision discovery-referral-appraisal and evaluation-rehabilitation.
The education department takes the lead in advancing the prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents. The organization revised the lighting standards for classrooms in primary and secondary schools, and promoted the comprehensive improvement of the school’s visual environment. Promote burden reduction and efficiency enhancement, and comprehensively reduce the burden in terms of optimizing courses, improving quality, standardizing off-campus training institutions, scientific evaluation examinations, and family-social collaboration. We will ensure that all primary and secondary schools are fully organized and have enough physical education classes, and students should be organized and urged to take outdoor activities during breaks in an orderly manner. Fully implement the school sports homework system to ensure that primary and secondary school students have more than one hour of outdoor activities a day.