At a recent symposium on the theme of ‘Strengthening Immunisation and Building Healthy Families’, Wu Jing, Director of the Centre for Chronic Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), emphasised that in the season of high incidence of infectious diseases, it is necessary to improve the preventive capacity of the corresponding infectious diseases and enhance immunity to prevent the occurrence of diseases through vaccination. The aim is to prevent diseases from occurring. Young children, the elderly, patients with chronic diseases and other people with fragile immune functions are the key groups that need to be strengthened.

Families are the first line of defence against disease. CDC's preventive medicine practices act as a ‘family health shield’, using science-based daily habits to build a protective barrier for each member of the family. These measures don't take much time or effort, and require simple behaviours that can be integrated into your life to provide immunity protection for the whole family.