Epidemiological feature of infectious disease-related public health emergency events in Fujian province,2004-2013

Objective To examine the epidemiological characteristics of infectious disease-related public health emergency events in Fujian province.Methods Repeated measure model was used to analyze distribution characteristics of 282 infectious disease-related public health emergency events in Fujian province during 2004 through 2013.Results During the 10 years,there were 282 infectious disease-related emergency events reported in the province,of which,264 were categorized as grade 4(serious events).The main causes of the events were chicken pox(69),cholera(59),mumps(52),influenza(39),and rubella(21).There were no statistically significant regional differences in either the number of the events or the attack rate(F=1.07,P=0.3942;F=0.98,P=0.4585).The time distribution of the events demonstrated two peaks from April to May(77 events) and November to December(55 events) and the most of the events(183) occured in primary schools(116) and secondary schools(38).Conclusion The adverse impact of infectious disease-related public health emergency events is almost the same in different regions of Fujian province and the most of the events are related to intestinal and respiratory infectious diseases.