Abstract
In recent years, the incidence of severe infectious diseases has increased, and the number of emerging infectious diseases continues to increase. The Chinese government and military forces have paid a great deal of attention to infectious disease prevention and control, and using military-civilian cooperation, they have successfully prevented numerous severe epidemic situations, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), influenza A (H1N1), avian influenza H5N1 and H7N9, and Ebola hemorrhagic fever, while actively maintained public health, economic development, and national construction. This paper focuses on the mechanisms of the military-cooperative emergency response to infectious diseases--the joint working mechanism, the information-sharing mechanism, the research collaboration mechanism, and the joint disposal mechanism--and presents a sorted summary of the practices and experiences of cooperative emergency responses to infectious diseases. In the future, the Chinese military and the civilian sector will further strengthen the cooperative joint command system and emergency rescue force and will reinforce their collaborative information-sharing platform and technical equipment system to further improve military-civilian collaborative emergency infectious diseases disposal, advance the level of infectious disease prevention and control, and maintain public health.
Highlights
In recent years, the prevalence of severe infectious disease has increased, and the number of emerging infectious diseases continues to increase [1]
The Chinese government and military forces have been highly focused on infectious disease prevention and control, and through militarycivilian cooperation, they have successfully prevented numerous severe epidemic situations, such as sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), influenza A (H1N1), avian influenza H5N1 and H7N9, and Ebola hemorrhagic fever, while actively maintaining public health, economic development, and national construction [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
Institutionalization of military-civilian collaborative emergency organization and operation To effectively address severe epidemics, the government and military formulated several laws, regulations, policies, strategic development plans, joint action programs, emergency safety measures, and various types of operable emergency predetermined plans; clearly defined the division of duties and transactions; established an assessment mechanism for military-civilian joint epidemic situations and a docking mechanism for military-civilian relevant departments; and jointly improved the ability to respond to infectious disease emergencies
Summary
The prevalence of severe infectious disease has increased, and the number of emerging infectious diseases continues to increase [1]. The epidemic data from local disease control and prevention institutions are shared nationwide in a timely manner using similar procedures and the epidemic report channel, which establishes the collaborative surveillance and forewarning mechanism that discovers early epidemic outbreaks and provides strong technical support so that prompt and effective military-civilian control measures can be taken.
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