民国时期陕西的卫生助理员制度

The system of health assistants in Shaanxi during the Republican period

1932年，陕西省政府为应对瘟疫，设立“陕西防疫处”，并在基层设立卫生助理员制度。作为乡村防疫的主要宣传者和推行者，卫生助理员在公共卫生知识的宣传、公共卫生观念的形成，公共环境卫生的调查以及卫生防疫工作的普及等方面，发挥了较显著的作用。卫生助理员制度作为近代陕西卫生事业起步并逐步走向现代化的标志，在其发挥积极作用的同时说明：现代卫生事业的开展，需要综合国力的提高和政治文明建设的同步进行。

To tackle plague, in the 21st year of the Republic of China （1932）, the government of Shaanxi province, established the“Shaanxi Department of Epidemic Prevention” and set up health assistant system at the grassroots level. As the main promoter and executor of rural epidemic prevention, the health assistants played a significant role in the formation of public health knowledge propaganda, the formation of public health idea, public environmental hygiene investigation and popularization of health and epidemic prevention work. Health assistant system, as the initiation of modern Shaanxi health, marking the gradual moving forward to its modernization, exerting a positive role and, at the same time, demonstrating that the development of modern public health needs the improvement of comprehensive national strength and the simultaneous construction of political civilization.