博济医院与广州公共卫生事业

Canton Hospital and public health in Canton

博济医院是近代华南最有影响力的教会医院，也是最早把公共卫生的概念和实践方法引入广州的机构。晚清时期，其进行的赠种牛痘、瘟疫救治、卫生宣教等活动，向民众展示了公共卫生对身体健康的重要性。民国时期，其与政府和社会组织广泛合作，举办学校卫生、妇幼保健、传染病防治和流行病调查等，主动服务社会人群。20世纪30年代，博济医院又将公共卫生活动拓展到广州周边农村地区，促进了乡村与城市医疗卫生服务的衔接，其构建的三级医疗系统，为中国乡村医疗体系的建立提供了示范的模型。

Canton Hospital was not only the most influential missionary hospital in South China, but also the first one brought the concept and practice of public health to Guangzhou. In the late Qing Dynasty, it conducted free vaccination, plague treatment, health education and so on, demonstrating the importance of public health to the people. In the period of the Republic of China, it extensively cooperated with the government and social organizations in developing school health, maternal and child health, communicable disease control and epidemiological investigations to actively serve the social group. In the 1930s, its public health activities extended towards the rural areas of Guangzhou, and promoted the convergence of rural and urban medical and health services. The threelevel medical system that it built provided demonstration model for the establishment of Chinese rural medical system.