Recently, "Little Poplar Teenager Growth-assisting Plan" has become a hot issue among parents in Shenzhen. The free screening is conducted among teenagers for their health condition. Hosted by Guangdong Provincial Work Injury Rehabilitation Hospital and undertaken by Shenzhen New Element Health Management Co., Ltd., the activity has attracted public attention from June 1 and scheduled to continue until the end of December.

Even an investment of one hundred million for health screening is not enough

More news emerged about the declining physical condition of primary and secondary school students in recent years. Insufficient exercise, bad diet and unhealthy lifestyle have made the health of teenagers a worrying topic. Declined health also caused other problems such as myopia, obesity, scoliosis and even hypertension. According to the data of the recent health screening by New Element network hospitals, 40% teenagers suffer from abnormality of ankle and spine, among which 25% need intervention, and 12% serious cases need to be treated immediately.

According to an insider of Shenzhen New Element Health Management Co., Ltd., New Element will invest RMB 100 million in the health screening activity in the next two years. Professional teams of health managers subordinated to New Element has visited communities and schools in Shenzhen and Guangzhou for free health monitoring, spine and ankle disease check among teenagers. Through such kind of activity, New Element aims at publicizing health knowledge on spine and ankle, preventing and treating scoliosis and ankle disease for teenagers in Shenzhen, improving their health condition and making them grow healthily and smoothly. At the same time, New Element has planned to extend the activity to more cities across China to benefit more teenagers by equal medical health services. However, project manager of New Element made a calculation for me. It is estimated that China has around 200 million teenagers younger than 14. Setting the screening budget each child at RMB 500, then just 50 million teenagers will need RMB 25 billion. The 100 million investments by New Element is only a drop in the ocean. It is a cause required more input from families and the society.

Parents in Shenzhen: we did not aware of the so many health problems during children growth

On June 16, the 25th activity of Little Poplar Teenager Growth-assisting Plan was held in Shenzhen Kecheng Experimental School. On the spot, one parent said in the interview that her child seems lively and healthy, but proved to be having scoliosis in the screening. A health manager told me that if the scoliosis is not serious, it will be difficult to realize its existence. Fortunately we have found it in time, otherwise, it might develops into razorback, a serious body abnormality.

It is an example of the health knowledge of most parents in Shenzhen. As the best teachers of children, if parents fail to have correct health idea, their children will also develop bad habits, such as lacking of enough exercise. In addition, when electronic products are very popular among teenagers, more and more health problems among children emerged, including spine problem and vision problem. In early stage, symptom is not clear, so the problems are usually neglected by parents and children. Through the screening activity, we expect to enhance parents by correct health idea and help them to recognize children's health problems during the growth.

Health manager of New Element states health problem of children is not necessarily means parents do not care about them. Most parents are not doctors, they have little knowledge about various chronic diseases and sudden diseases, leave alone to find the symptom and conduct a treatment in time.

Over 400 expert lectures a delivered to promote health care among citizens

As we know, lifestyle changed our health to an extent as high as 60%. Average longevity of Chinese has increased to 78 years old from only 35 years old before China was founded. Besides the contribution of medical institutions, health education is also a key. As the leading enterprise of out-hospital chronic disease management in China, New Element takes lifestyle management, risk control of chronic diseases and diagnosis and treatment standard as the important aspects of chronic disease management. It also spreads health ideas continuously and popularizes health knowledge to the public through the way of lecture hall of experts.

From September 2015 to June 2016, New Element had held over 400 public health lectures delivered by famous doctors and specialists on most concerned topics of various health issues. The lecture campaign is rare in China considering its duration, total numbers and the level of lecturers. According to the official of Shenzhen New Element Health Management Co., Ltd., the of "Little Poplar" is a start of more activities including report interpretations on spine and ankle screening, health lectures such as scoliosis prevention and hand-out of leaflets or other materials on the topic. At the same time, in the over 500 New Element health stations across the country, professional health managers will receive the consultation of the public face to face. Of course, more citizens are encouraged to know and involve in the actively with public interest.

Health management mode innovated by New Element needs more social support

Establishing health management system for teenagers’ growth is a difficult task. The investment is high, the scope is wide and the period is long, and government and schools pay less attention to it. The deepened education reform in recent years seemed release student burdens. However, as the examination competition becomes more serious, students spend more time in and out of class in books while exercise time is reduced constantly, which brings negative influence on students both physically and mentally.

What New Element network hospital plans to do need joint force of government, schools and parents? The public benefit activity is not only a simple screening to students, but publicity on health knowledge to students and their parents. The activity will set up a health management archive for every student to care about their health at any time. New Element has planned to develop various types of chronic disease screening across the country, promote the public benefit screening activity and improve the health consciousness and health level of the public. There is no doubt that such innovation measures of New Element are very significant for preventing and treating the health problems of growth and development of teenagers. Not only does medical system need to be reformed, the innovative health management mode of New Element also needs to be supported more by the whole society.

Happiness Index of a country shall base on health

In many developed countries, the public have very scientific health ideas. In cause of economic reform in China, however, people pay most attention to school enrollment and earning money, but neglect the health of their own and their children. A popular network joke said: We making money before 40 and spending them in hospital after ".It is really a real reflection of what is going on in China.

Wang Dexing, project manager public screening of the New Element network hospitals, told me that health is the key of enjoying a happy life. To make the public healthier is always an ideal for New Element. At present, New Element has established a very mature out-hospital health management mode and opened up the industrial chain of health service. For example, based on its existing powerful service platform, New Element actively develops Internet innovation technology and set up an integrated service platform including "network hospital + health station + health 360 club + health insurance". For the far-reaching and cruel chronic diseases such as scoliosis, diabetes, chronic nephropathy and ankle disease, etc., pre-hospital prevention, in-hospital treatment and post-hospital management can be realized through the platform. New Element expects to attract the attention of teenagers and the whole society to national health through such activity. Cheer for "Health China Dream"!