Team:SZPT-CHINA/Public Engagement
EDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT
Based on our project, we try to influence more people around us. We adhere to the concept of
user-friendly and humane to develop antihypertensive products which is benefit and acceptable to more people. In
order to let everyone participate,
to understand about our products, we have held lectures, offline experience, debates and so on.
However, prevention or control of blood pressure through products is not the best policy.
Hypertension is preventable, and prevention is the most fundamental and cheapest way. To this end, we have launched
a series of activities to improve the public's health literacy. We not only go to the community for missions, but
we also focus on the health of rural residents. However, we cannot travel to every corner of the world.
The public media is the best choice. Electronic resources can convey healthy knowledge to every corner.
We intend to prevent and control hypertension by probiotics producing antihypertensive peptides.
It is well known that probiotics can be made into a wide variety of products. Through surveys, we found that the
public is more inclined to antihypertensive yogurt in the form of food. In order to let everyone know how
antihypertensive yoghurt works,
we have organized an activity which they can directly experience making yogurt.
A total of 158 people participated in our activities (one in 68 and the other in 90). We explained
the principle of microbial fermentation, how yogurt is made, and how to give probiotics
antihypertensive function. And they can taste yogurt on the spot when they are listening to the lecture.
In addition, we invited 30 lucky listeners to experience the production of yogurt on the spot. If
our products are listed in the future, as long as they are willing, they can directly purchase our strains to
ferment
antihypertensive yogurt for their family or themselves, which will greatly reduce the costs.
(Note: The bacteria used in this activity are not our recombinant
bacteria, but commercially available lactic acid bacteria that can be used in food.
All operations are carried out in food processing rooms.)
Despite our ongoing efforts to develop products, we are able to sell our products on the market
and benefit potential people with high blood pressure or high blood pressure. But in China, genetically modified
foods have always been controversial, and the public is worried about genetically modified foods. Letting the
public view the genetically modified food critically and correctly considering its advantages and disadvantages is
an important part of promoting the further application of genetically modified foods.
We held a debate on the theme of “Genetically Modified Food is better than harm or more harm than good”.
Freshmen, they are willing to accept new things and be more creative. The SZPT-CHINA team and the
SZU-China team jointly held a lecture on what is iGEM. There were 366 teachers and students responding to this
lecture.
At the same time, we also promoted knowledge about how to prevent hypertension.
As we mentioned earlier, the situation with high blood pressure is so serious. The most important
task is to establish a healthy awareness of everyone. We hope that through our efforts, their knowledge about
hypertension prevention can be improved. To this end, we conduct free clinics in the community to provide free
medical examinations for community residents, which eliminate some of their health problems and find problems in
time to solve problems. In addition, in order to raise awareness of the
prevention and treatment of hypertension, we held a special lecture on hypertension.
It is the best and cheapest way to prevent high blood pressure that is to prevent it from the
daily life. Only by transmitting the right ideas to their minds can they better prevent
it and not pay a huge price for ignorance.
Because high blood pressure generally has no symptoms, it is often overlooked and not treated as a
serious disease. Many patients develop serious complications when they are found to have hypertension. Helping them
discover early so that they can receive
timely treatment is of great significance in reducing the serious complications of hypertension.
As far as China is concerned, the countryside is the “hardest hit” for hypertension. Their
cultural level is relatively backward, their economic level and their awareness of high blood pressure are even
weaker. There are no symptoms in the early stages of hypertension or occasional discomfort such as dizziness, which
are ignored and often lead to serious consequences. Therefore, we conducted a 7-day summer camp with a theme of
hypertension in the countryside.
This team consists of 22 members from the Health Promotion Association and Ji'an Polytechnic.
In the countryside, we went to each household to conduct high-pressure physical examination and
high blood knowledge for the villagers. Members of the Health Promotion Association conduct a physical examination
program for hypertension in residents. The physical examination program for hypertension includes 14 indicators
such as blood pressure,
blood lipids, blood sugar, and heart rate. Finally, doctors give appropriate prevention and treatment
recommendations.
Other team members conducted questionnaires and popularized health knowledge through indirect
pamphlets. In order to raise public awareness of high blood pressure and reduce their misunderstanding of health
food and medication safety, we have produced a small brochure. We use the propaganda brochure to explain the basics
of health to the villagers one by one, such as medication safety, a correct understanding of health food, nutrition
and health care. We hope to help them understand
high blood pressure correctly and prevent hypertension from being controlled.
In addition, we also pay special attention to two special groups, “left-behind children” and
“lonely old man”.
The most effective way to promote is to directly contact the relevant people. Therefore, we have
produced a brochure for the common problems in the prevention and treatment of hypertension in daily life. The
contents of the manual include: food safety, medication safety, health care columns, nutritional health and high
blood pressure. Our aim is to send health knowledge to every household through care and care for every family.
Everyone can easily avoid some misunderstandings in life,
and small knowledge plays a role, so that they can better care for themselves and their families.
Hypertension is not terrible. It is terrible to have high blood pressure without knowing or
receiving treatment. In the countryside, our team members go into the villagers' homes and conduct systematic
medical examinations for them. The physical examination items include blood pressure, blood lipids, blood sugar,
heart rate and other 14 indicators. Finally, the team
leader will give some medical advices. This can eliminate physical health risks for them.
Left-behind children mean that parents are not around, and the children live or live with their
grandparents. Although they are less likely to have high blood pressure directly, the elders who live with them
often instill a bad life into them. It seems that what we can do are limited but to bring them
warmth and influence his elders. I hope they can establish healthy living habits from an early age.
A lonely old man is a group of people who live in the elderly without accompany. They have almost
no concept of high blood pressure and will ignore some warnings
from the body that they are at high risk of complications of hypertension.
We conduct physical examinations such as measuring blood pressure and give them corresponding
advice.
Award
We won the following awards for this activity:
(1) “Best Project Award” for school social practice.
(2) “Social Key Social Practice Team” in the summer practice of Guangdong Province.
(3) The event was reported by the China Youth Network six times.
Although we do our best to influence the people around us as much as possible, we hope that
through our efforts, their health literacy can be improved. But reach every corner of the world to pass on the
message to everyone. At this point, it is a wise choice to use media tools to popularize hypertension knowledge
online. In China, almost everyone who uses a smartphone will use WeChat. Due to the wide range of people covered by
the WeChat platform, we have developed a simple and easy mini program based on this platform. You don't need to
install any app instead of
scanning the QR code, and it will always be on your WeChat, which you can use it very conveniently.
Our mini program is specially tailored for hypertension. You can use it to record your blood
pressure values and generate an intuitive data curve. You can use it to
get your personal advice based on your blood pressure. You can use it to get health information.
