Study on the Dilemma and Countermeasures of Rural Emergency Management Under COVID-19—A Case Analysis Based on the Rural Areas Around Chengdu

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 broke out and spread rapidly, posing a great challenge to the emergency management capacity of various regions in China, especially in rural areas. This paper takes three communities in ShiYang town, Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province as cases, to analyze the specific practice of rural response to public health emergencies, summarize different stages in epidemic prevention and control, and explore the difficulties and solutions in rural emergency management. Through the case analysis, it is found that the rural epidemic prevention and control in ShiYang Town have experienced four stages including exploration period, development period, improvement period, and maturity period. At the same time, there are some dilemmas in rural emergency management, such as the imperfect emergency management mechanism, insufficient resources guarantee, and villagers’ weak awareness of health and epidemic prevention. Therefore, the paper proposes such countermeasures suggestions as improving the emergency management mechanism of rural public health, optimizing the resources guarantee system for rural emergency management, strengthening the popularization of health education, providing theoretical and practical guidance for improving the level of rural emergency management, and then promoting the modernization of rural emergency management system and capacity. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.