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

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

In 2003, a sudden outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) occurred in China. More public health emergencies such as the H1N1 flu epidemic in 2009 and the H7N9 avian flu epidemic in 2013 had serious impacts on China's politics, economy, trade, and people's health, among others. Theory and implementation of health emergency systems have evolved worldwide. China has gradually implemented the construction of a comprehensive emergency management system including the use of theoretical models, assessment systems, and response studies. China's health emergency management system is an important component of the comprehensive emergency management system, and health emergency management assessment is an important part of the health emergency management system. China's health emergency management assessment system has experienced many rigorous tests in response to a series of public health emergencies and has accumulated experience in detecting health emergencies and managing the weaknesses of the evaluation system. There are many types of health emergency management assessments and many methods for health emergency management assessment in China, and the dimensions and the indicators of health emergency management assessment are complex. For example, the evaluation system named the "Disease control agency health emergency capacity evaluation index" has three dimensions, the system known as the "Evaluation