Evaluation of Public Health Emergency Management in China: A Systematic Review

Wang, Jia; Yuan, Beibei; Li, Zhengmao; Wang, Zhifeng

The dimensions and the indicators of health emergency management assessment represent, to some extent, a specific aspect of health emergency management work and represent the constituent elements of health emergency management (e.g., health emergency agencies, manpower, materials, information technology, funds). These elements support health emergency management work and are the foundation for the smooth implementation of health emergency management. This review found that the assessment dimensions predominantly included national and local state health administrative departments' normal emergency management and abnormal emergency command organization management. Assessment dimensions were also concerned with health emergency professional technical institutions, including health emergency level disease prevention and control institutions, professional disposal management, personnel management, materials management, information management, fund management, etc., at various levels of health institutions. Moreover, health emergency assessment indicators are embodied in the duties and the authority of the state in the management of normal/abnormal emergencies, duties of professional technical institutions, classifications and responsibilities of technical and health emergency personnel, emergency materials categories and management methods, information monitoring, source, report, confidentiality, and supervision, and aspects of health emergency fund sources to support policy and supervision.