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


CONCLUSIONS
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.
Hong
Rong-tao
RT
Fujian Provincal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Fuzhou 350001, China.
Cai
Shao-jian
SJ
Chen
Cai-lin
CL
Zhang
Ying-zhen
YZ
Ou
Jian-ming
JM
Chen
Wu
W
Zhan
Mei-rong
MR
Xu
Long-shan
LS
Yan
Yan-sheng
YS
D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D002771:Cholera / Q000453:epidemiology; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003715:Dengue / Q000453:epidemiology; D004630:Emergencies / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology; D015980:Public Health Practice