title: Health Education as an Important Component in the National Schistosomiasis Control Programme in The People's Republic of China.
abstract: Schistosomiasis control programme in The People's Republic of China had promoted the mass mobilization of health education in various forms, such as films, drama, traditional opera, poems, slogans, posters, exhibits. This paper is trying to review the impacts of those forms on different endemic settings and targeted populations. In the future, health education and health promotion will still be the effective strategy and one of the interventions in the national control programme for schistosomiasis and other infectious diseases, even in the pre- or posttransmission stages. With the social and economic development and improvement of people's living standard, it is necessary to establish a sustainable mechanism, in combination of health education with health guarantee of improving the quality of life, improving the production and living conditions, changing the unhealthy production methods and lifestyle of the residents in the endemic areas, in order to reach the goal of schistosomiasis elimination in The People's Republic of China.
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, The People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, The People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, The People's Republic of China; WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, Shanghai, The People's Republic of China; Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology of the Chinese Ministry of Health, Shanghai, The People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, The People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: R-Z
authors.initials: RZ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, The People's Republic of China; WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, Shanghai, The People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: C-L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Cao
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D019353:Endemic Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006266:Health Education; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D012547:Schistosoma / Q000502:physiology*; D012549:Schistosoma japonicum / Q000502:physiology; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000517:prevention & control*
keywords: Health education; National control programme; Promotion; Schistosoma japonicum; Schistosomiasis; The People's Republic of China