[Study on the public health emergent events in Fujian province in 2004--2007]

Abstract

Objective: To study the public health emergent events (PHEE) in Fujian province, from 2004 to 2007.

Methods: Descriptive and analytic methods were used to analyze the PHEE in Fujian province according to the internet-based surveillance reports.

Results: From 2004 to 2007, there were 304 emergency events being surveyed. Of all the events, there were 7 (2.30%) belonged to serious-degree of grade II, 57(18.75%) to grade III and 240 (78.95%) to grade IV, but with no grade I. Results showed that the attack rate in affected population was 25.82 per thousand, the mortality rate was 0.08 per thousand and the fatality rate was 0.32%. The numbers of emergency events decreased 2.82% on average, each year. A total number of 169 (55.60%) events occurred in schools with 71 (23.36%) in the countryside. Numbers due to infectious disease-born was 233 (76.64%) including avian flu, cholera and dengue fever were predominant pathogens of the grade II and grade III emergency events. 57 (18.75%) of the events was due to food poisoning. The epi-garph showed that there were two peaks. i.e. in Mar-Apr and Sep, contributed 43.1% to the total number of events.

Conclusion: Emergency events showed a stable decrease in Fujian province with communicable disease and food poisoning the two major sources and more commonly seen in schools and countryside. We suggest that the government and community pay more attention to the emergency events of avian flu, cholera and dengue fever.