The Study On The Emergency Response System Of Outburst Public Health Incident In Frontier Port

Objective: To prevent effectively, control in time, and eliminate the hazards of outburst public health incident in frontier port, guarantee the public in good condition and ensure their security, maintain the natural order in frontier port, carry ou《t The byelaw of outburst public health incident emergency》issued by the State Council, to reply the hazards coming from the disease of natural focus and biological warfare in today's close intercommunion world. Methods: Comparing the operation condition of the emergency response system of outburst public health incident in the USA, the UK, Japan and China, we can see that: America has a perfect outburst public health incident management system. It is an omnidirectional, tridimensional, multistrata, and synthetic emergency managed network. In England, "national health service system and the response plan for outburst public health incident", issued by the cooperation institution of emergency incident affiliated to the Ministry of Health , composed of the main frame for response system of outburst public health incident. In Japan, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has the responsibility to set up the emergency system. This system relates to 8 local substations, 13 quarantine institutes, 47 state medical universities and appendant hospitals, 62 national hospitals, 125 national sanatoriums, 5 national research institutes. In China, our related system drops behind those countries. We can establish a frame of this system suited to our own situation through analyzing the emergency system of outburst public health incident in China frontier port. Results: Based on the emergency system of outburst public health incident and the many problems exposed in the crisis of SARS in china frontier port, we draw a picture for the emergency system of outburst public health incident in china frontier port, including command cooperation system, crisis response and prepare system, forecast and monitor system, emergency response system, department cooperation system, information network system, law barrier system, the system for dealing with problems arising from crisis, the efficiency evaluation system and the international communication system. Conclusions: First, as an important part of national public health system, ports health and quarantine undertake the important task of preventing the communicable disease from importing and exporting. Because of the closed international communication and the increasing number of people , freights, luggage through frontier port, the work of preventing and controlling outburst public health incident is becoming more and more difficult. Every country in the world is under the threat of all sorts of communicable diseases caused by the disease of national focus and international biological warfare. And in other hand, convenient transportation makes the spread speed faster and faster. So, it is necessary to reinforce the ability to respond to outburst public health incident. Secondly, in order to insure our health in good condition, it is suggested that government invest more finance, resource, and manpower in this system.