Health education expert consensus on prevention of key respiratory virus infectious diseases in infants

Infants are the high risk group of respiratory virus infectious diseases. Health education is one of the effective measures to spread disease prevention knowledge and prevent the occurrence and development of diseases. Currently, public attention to the prevention of respiratory virus infections in infants is increasing, but there is a lack of relative guidance materials on health education. National Center for Women and Children’s Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Child Health Care Branch of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association organized experts to formulate this consensus, starting from the basic content, the application scenarios, the implement methods, and effect evaluation of health education, with a view to improve medical personnel’s ability of health education in medical and health institutions at all levels, promote public attention to infant respiratory virus infectious diseases, so as to prevent the occurrence of diseases, reduce the rate of severe illness and ensure the health of infants.