Cooperated and Shared Care: Reflections on Treatment-prevention Integration

Abstract

The persistent elevation of the prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases and sudden pandemic of COVID-19 infections have once again attracted the attention of the whole society to prevention activities closely associated with epidemic prevention. Although the correlation between prevention and treatment of health is a long-term topic, innovation and mechanism of treatment-prevention integration proposed by Chinese health administration after the peak of COVID-19 epidemic has attracted attention and reflections of the medical and academic fields. Medical treatment and prevention are inseparable. The questions such as how to achieve the coordination and balance between treatment and prevention, what is the solution of treatment-prevention integration, are worth further study and exploration. Beginning with clarifying the concept of treatment and prevention, this paper analyzes the reasons for the separation of treatment and prevention, explores the approaches for effective connection and cooperative interaction between the two, thus providing further research directions for general practice researchers, calling on colleagues in general practice to contribute their wisdom and promote the contribution of treatment-prevention integration to healthy China.

Keywords

• treatment-prevention integration|integrated care|shared care|preventive health services|chronic disease management|communicable disease control|general practice|research