Empowering Middle-Aged and Elderly Women: Shanghai’s World Menopause Care Day Event Encourages Better Health and Happiness

2023-10-21 03:50:00

People’s Daily Online, Shanghai, October 21 (Reporter Gong Sha) In response to the “World Menopause Care Day” and advocate the whole society to jointly pay attention to the health of middle-aged and elderly women, on October 18, the “Colorful Life and Better Life” 2023 Shanghai “World Menopause Care Day” “Menopause Care Day” event was unveiled at Shanghai’s Zhiyu Jinhai Lake. This event was guided by the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission and hosted by the Shanghai Maternal and Child Health Center, Shanghai Health Promotion Center, and Fengxian District Health Committee.

Zhang Ying, Secretary of the Health Work Party Committee of Fengxian District, delivered an opening speech for the event. She said that in recent years, Fengxian District has been demand-oriented and targeted at the population, and has continued to promote the health management of menopausal women. In the future, we will continue to summarize experience, actively explore, and carry out social advocacy and knowledge popularization of maternal and child health concepts in an all-round and multi-angle manner, so that more people can grasp the “golden key” to health.

Everyone has faced pain, experienced troughs, and experienced emotional ups and downs. Especially menopausal women are under multiple pressures from family, workplace, society, etc., resulting in psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression, and even world-weariness. and other psychological problems. Under various pressures, how can we fill the space of life with “pleasant emotions”? Liu Yanhua, deputy secretary-general of the China Psychological Counseling Development Research Center and a psychological expert, combined the “juggling theory” to share with menopausal female friends relevant mental health science knowledge on how to keep themselves emotionally stable and happy. Regarding emotional regulation, Liu Yanhua mentioned: Menopausal women are more likely to magnify small things. They can improve their emotional energy through expression management, deep breathing, smelling flowers and other methods. When there are many bad things to worry about, you can try to focus on the one thing in front of you without any distractions. Things, like a circus juggler, only focus on “the ball in the hand.”

When women enter menopause, their skeletal system will also experience a series of problems. Shi Huipeng, chief physician of the Orthopedics Department of the Sixth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, pointed out that when women reach menopause, estrogen levels decrease, which may affect the absorption of calcium and cause brittle bones. prone to fractures. When muscle strength decreases and fractures occur easily after a fall, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible and supplement vitamin D, vitamin K, protein, saturated fat, etc. to ensure comprehensive nutrition, maintain a happy mood, and get enough sleep.

It is reported that the innovative cases of maternal and child life cycle health science popularization in Fengxian District were displayed and awards were given at the event site. A health fair is specially organized offline. Eight model community health service centers in Fengxian District provide health services such as traditional Chinese medicine auricular acupoints, tea drinks, and bone density testing, from institutions such as National Maternity and Infants, Red House, Maternity and Infants, Mental Health Center, etc. Well-known experts provide free health clinics for the people, attracting the participation of many local residents. At the same time, through online live broadcast, it radiates to people in all districts of the city and Xinjiang, Yunnan and other places, providing scientific, authoritative and practical health science knowledge to menopausal women across the country. .

(Editors: Gong Sha, Xuan Zhaoqiang)

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