Abstract
At present, major public health emergencies frequently occur worldwide, and it is of great significance to analyze the research status and latest developments in this field to improve the ability of public health emergency management in various countries. This paper took 5,143 related studies from 2007 to 2020 from the Web of Science as research object and used CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and other software to perform co-word analysis, social network analysis, and cluster analysis. The results and conclusions were as follows: (1) the related research identified three periods: the exploration, growth, and outbreak period; (2) chronologically: the relevant research evolved from medical and health care for major diseases to emergency management and risk assessment of public health emergencies and then researched the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia epidemic; (3) clustering analysis of high-frequency keywords, identifying three research hotspots: “disaster prevention and emergency medical services,” “outbreak and management of infectious diseases in Africa,” and “emergency management under the COVID-19 pneumonia epidemic.” Finally, this study combined the data and literature analysis to point out possible future research directions: from the research of the COVID-19 pneumonia epidemic to the research of general major public health emergencies, thinking and remodeling of the national public health emergency management system, and exploring the establishment of an efficient international emergency management cooperation mechanism.
Highlights
Public health is the science and technology that prevents diseases, prolongs life, and promotes health through organized efforts and informed choices to benefit public and private institutions, large and small communities, and all individuals in society [1]
Public Health Emergency Management adopted at the relevant high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in 2019, global health is placed at the core of development
Various secondary and derivative problems caused by the COVID-19 epidemic have become a major global public health emergency caused by compound disaster risk, which has brought tremendous impact and challenges to the construction of emergency management systems and capacity improvement of governments
Summary
Public health is the science and technology that prevents diseases, prolongs life, and promotes health through organized efforts and informed choices to benefit public and private institutions, large and small communities, and all individuals in society [1]. Since the twenty first century, with the advancement of globalization, the frequency and complexity of public health emergencies have been increasing [2], from SARS, H1N1 influenza, dengue fever to Ebola, MERS, the Zika epidemic (ZIKV), and the recent COVID-19 epidemic, which continues to affect the world. Public Health Emergency Management adopted at the relevant high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in 2019, global health is placed at the core of development. Shoaf et al emphasized the role of public health in disaster risk reduction [6]. Singleton et al systematically discussed the synergy between emergency management and public health, the COVID-19 epidemic that emerged at the end of 2019 and spread worldwide [7]. Various secondary and derivative problems caused by it have become a major global public health emergency caused by compound disaster risk, which has brought tremendous impact and challenges to the construction of emergency management systems and capacity improvement of governments [8–10]
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