When is National Patriotic Health Month?

National Patriotic Health Month is April every year. April 2022 is the 34th Patriotic Health Month. This year’s theme is "Civilized, Healthy, Green and Environmentally Friendly". The patriotic health movement is a great initiative and successful practice of applying the mass line to health and disease prevention work. The patriotic health movement is a concrete action that transforms our country's organizational and cultural advantages, especially the advantages of mass movements, into continuously improving the health and well-being of the people.

National Patriotic Health Month was officially launched in 1952. In 1952, in order to defend against bacterial warfare, a vigorous patriotic health movement was launched across the country. In the same year, the Central Committee established the Epidemic Prevention Committee, which was later renamed the Central Patriotic Health Campaign Committee. Since then, the patriotic health campaign has been vigorously carried out across the country, focusing on solving prominent health problems in the people's production and life in different periods.

National Patriotic Health Month has carried out a series of tasks such as eliminating "four pests", improving water and toilets, "Five Lectures, Four Beauties and Three Loves", urban and rural environmental sanitation and cleanliness actions, creating sanitary towns, and building healthy towns, and has achieved great results. Remarkable results. Focusing on solving the prominent health problems in people's production and life in different periods, mobilize the people to continuously improve the urban and rural environment, popularize healthy lifestyles, and effectively safeguard the people's health rights and interests.