Abstract:

On the basis of the development of modern biology, especially complex system biology and molecular medicine, it is anticipated that the future trend of medicine is towards its predictiveness, preventiveness and individuality. The change of human illness spectrum makes the demand on illness prevention a more serious one. All these changes and development call on a comprehensive hygiene-promoting system as well as the further development of preventive pharmaceutical science. It studies the key aspects of illness from its onset to its further development o n cellular level, to discover risk factors of diseases and their biological mark ers, as well as to establish indicative and predicative measures, the preventive pharmaceutical science explores further on the basis of the aforementioned the mechanism of the intervening of illness, the screening, design and discovery of preventive drugs which are pertinent to the individual illness. China has some a dvantages in several respects of preventive medicine development. The preventive pharmaceutical science will bring about innovations and advances in multiple le vels and aspects of the society, such as pharmaceutical industry, drug and food administration as well as the fundamental scientific research.