Study on the timeliness of detection and reporting on public health emergency events in China
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2009.03.016
- VernacularTitle:中国突发公共卫生事件发现与报告及时性的研究
- Author:
Ke-Li LI
1
;
Zi-Jian FENG
;
Da-Xin NI
Author Information
1. 山东省泰安市疾病预防控制中心
- Keywords:
Emergency events;
Detect;
Report;
Timeliness
- From:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2009;30(3):265-268
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To analyze the timeliness of detection and reporting on public health emergency events, and to explore the effective strategies for improving the relative capacity on those issues. Methods We conducted a retrospective survey on 3275 emergency events reported through Public Health Emergency Events Surveillance System from 2005 to the first half of 2006. Developed by county Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a uniformed self-administrated questionnaire was used to collect data, which would include information on the detection, reporting of the events. Results For communicable diseases events, the median of time interval between the occurrence of first case and the detection of event was 6 days (P25=2, P75=13). For food poisoning events and clusters of disease with unknown origin,the medians were 3 hours (P25=1, P75=16) and 1 days (P25=0,P75=5). 71.54% of the events were reported by the discoverers within 2 hours after the detection. Conclusion In general, the ranges of time intervals between the occurrence, detection or reporting of the events were different, according to the categories of events. The timeliness of detection and reporting of events could have been improved dramatically if the definition of events, according to their characteristics, had been more reasonable and accessible, as well as the improvement of training program for healthcare staff and teachers.
