Study on the occupational distribution of discoverers and reporters of public health emergency events reported through Internet-based surveillance system / 中华流行病学杂志
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
; (12): 1-4, 2008.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM (Western Pacific)
| ID: wpr-287832
Responsible library:
WPRO
ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To describe the occupational distribution of staff who worked on detection and reporting on public health emergency events, and to explore the effective strategies for identification and reporting on emergency events.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>We conducted a retrospective survey on 3275 emergent events reported through Public Health Emergency Events Surveillance System from 2005 to the first half of 2006. Data were collected by uniform self-administrated questionnaires by county Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including information on events detection and reporting, etc.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Among event discoverers, 56.40% (1847/3275) were healthcare staff, 20.58% (674/3275) were teachers, and 15.15% (496/3275) were staff from the disease control systems. Among those event reporters, 56.82% (1861/3275) were healthcare staff, 21.77% (713/3275) from disease control system and 10.75% (352/ 3275) were teachers.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Healthcare staff and teachers played the most important role in detection and reporting on events. It would be favorable to improve the ability of events detection and reporting if we could enhance the training program to the relative staff in medical facilities and school settings especially at the grass root level.</p>
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Health context:
SDG3 - Health and Well-Being
Health problem:
Target 3.3: End transmission of communicable diseases
Database:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
China
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Population Surveillance
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Public Health
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Disease Notification
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Internet
Type of study:
Screening study
Aspects:
Social determinants of health
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
Year:
2008
Document type:
Article