title: [Public health situation and needs assessment after Wenchuan earthquake in Anxian, Sichuan province].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the public health situation and needs in Anxian after Wenchuan earthquake so as to make an effective strategy for disease control and prevention.
  
  
  METHODS
  69 concentrated settlements with 100 residents were investigated. Probability proportion to size was adopted for sampling of 2200 residents from 687 scattered households (about 440 000 scattered residents). The content of this survey included drinking water, food hygiene, environment sanitation, planning immunity and medical health service, disease surveillance and so on. SPSS 16.0 was used for data analysis, and statistical interpretation was used to describe the results.
  
  
  RESULTS
  90.9% (31/66) resettled residents in Anxian lived in tents, 7.6% (5/66) lived in the movable-plate house, 93.3% (621/666) scattered households lived in tents and 71.9% (446/621) of them lived in tents which were built by residents themselves; the rate of drinking water disinfection in resettlement sites and scattered households were 97.1% (66/68) and 94.6% (650/687); 12.8% scattered residents had mouldy or food; 50% of resettlement sites raised animals; 43.6% (17/39) medical station didn't have bacterin inoculation service; 66.7% (10/15) lacked sufficient disinfection equipment; register rate was 50.0% (33/66) and report rate of symptoms and infectious diseases was 56.1% (37/66).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There was still some risk of enteric and vector-borne diseases in Anxian, therefore, some tailored measures should be very important.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Statistics, West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
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mesh_terms: D004190:Disasters; D055866:Earthquakes; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006296:Health Services; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D014881:Water Supply