医学中的预防思想远在我国古代的一些医学家中和民间,已有流传。如我国“内经”记载的“圣人不治巳病治未病”,“上工治其萌芽;下工救其巳成,救其巳败”,“上工刺其未生者也,下工刺其方袭者也”等。而且在19世纪一些先进的资本主义国家中,预防医学已经成为一门独立科学。但是把预防为主作为国家的卫生工作方针,则是在俄国十月社会主义革命后,才第一次提出的;我国是在中华人民共和国成立后才提出的。预防为主的卫生工作方针是无产阶级世界观在卫生工作上的体现,它是在无产阶级世界观,即辩证唯物 The preventive thinking in medicine has spread far and wide among some ancient medical scientists in our country. For example, “Sage no cure has not cured disease” recorded in “Nei Jing” in our country, “the work of workers to cure its sprout; Its raiders also ”wait. And in some advanced capitalist countries in the nineteenth century, preventive medicine had become an independent science. However, it is the first time after the socialist revolution in Russia was launched in October that the prevention was the mainstay of the country’s health work plan. China was put forward only after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The principle of preventive health work is the manifestation of the proletarian world outlook in health work. It is based on the proletarian world outlook, that is, dialectical materialism