Research on systems for preventing and controlling emergent public health crises: I. The emergency re- sponse system / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

The paper analyzes the operation of the public health administration system under normal circumstances and the dilemmas the system faces in case of a crisis, sums up the new features presented by e-mergent public health crises under the new circumstances rapid spread, multiplier amplification and superimposed resonance, and discusses issues related to the establishment of an emergency response system. It argues that in order to meet the universal demands in preventing and controlling modern crises, it is imperative for the existing public health administration system to transform into the structurally differentiated and greatly enlarged emergency response system; and it is also imperative to establish the three subsystems of emergency decision-making, emergency mobilization and operations, and control and correction so as to improve and strengthen the functions of the original system.