Rethinking on disease prevention of public health system during emergency in China after outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome
- VernacularTitle:严重急性呼吸综合征暴发后对我国公共卫生防病应急系统的反思
- Author:
Guangwen CAO
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- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
severe acute respiratory syndrome;
public health system of disease prevention;
emergency reaction
- From:
Academic Journal of Second Military Medical University
1985;0(06):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Based on the experience in combating severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS) epidemic in Beijing, the paper analyzed the reasons for the SARS outbreak in Beijing and investigated the government reaction mechanism during emergency. The results showed that there were many defects in dealing with outburst of health event in the current system of public health for disease control, such as lack of the differentiation and prevention at the early stage, misconducts of the epidemic situation report system, lack of professional commanding system and the effective cooperation among the interrelated departments, weak team spirit,unconsciousness of intellectaul property right in the scientific research, and unreasonable medical resource allocation and storage system. Improvements concerning the above problems have been put forward to establish public health reaction mechanism for an emergent situation in China, providing contending for scholars and reference for the decision makers.
