In July 2026, the State Council released the National Health 15th Five-Year Plan. Its central signal is to place health priority, proactive health, digital transformation and medical-prevention integration within one life-course health service system.
Three directions set by the plan
Earlier health action
The focus moves from one-off treatment to continuous risk identification, promotion, intervention and follow-up.
Digital intelligence as a foundation
Digital intelligence should improve data governance, coordination and quality, not merely add more systems.
Medical and prevention teams work together
Providers, primary care and public-health systems need a service chain that is coordinated and traceable.
What this means for prevention infrastructure
From screening tools to evidence of continuous service
Risk prediction can only answer who deserves priority attention. Life-course health services also require traceable links between outreach, intervention records and outcome evaluation. ReHealth Core's Predict-Intervene-Attribute-Settle model is designed around this service-and-evidence chain.
Digitalisation is about usable data
Institutions should not measure success by field counts alone. Define the population, intervention, observation window and outcome first, then build the minimum viable data chain. That supports operational review, quality improvement and real-world evaluation.
Four starting questions for institutions
The 15th Five-Year Plan signals that health services need continuity, coordination and measurability. Prevention infrastructure should help institutions organise services into health actions that can be executed, audited and improved.