Table 5 Comparisons of various PHE events and related capacities of all types of hospitals, Beijing, Shandong, Guangxi, and Hainan, China, 2004–2005 (N = 318)
Varieties of PHE | Emergency plans included | Assessing response to PHE | Attending regulation and revision of emergency plans in local agencies | Having expert lists for following situation | Having projects admitting and treating following victims | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | No. "yes" | % | No. "yes" | % | No. "yes" | % | No. "yes" | % | No. "yes" | % |
Infectious diseases incidence | 277 | 95.5 | 133 | 93.7 | 81 | 28.2 | 293 | 93.3 | 210 | 70.7 |
Unidentified population diseases | 167 | 62.8 | 110 | 79.1 | 54 | 19.0 | 231 | 75.0 | 141 | 48.8 |
Mass food poisoning and water pollution | 200 | 73.5 | 116 | 82.3 | 57 | 20.1 | 243 | 79.2 | 173 | 59.5 |
Mass occupational poisoning | 125 | 49.2 | 75 | 56.8 | 45 | 16.0 | 166 | 56.5 | 100 | 35.3 |
Outbreak of nosocomial infection | 162 | 62.8 | 104 | 77.0 | 56 | 19.9 | 222 | 73.8 | 143 | 49.8 |
Mass abnormal reaction or death resulted from drugs or vaccination | 93 | 38.0 | 79 | 59.8 | 41 | 14.5 | 160 | 54.8 | 91 | 32.4 |
Incident of radioactive or poisonous material contamination | 103 | 41.4 | 60 | 45.8 | 32 | 11.4 | 125 | 43.1 | 73 | 25.9 |
Biochemical and nuclear terrorism | 50 | 20.5 | 40 | 30.5 | 25 | 8.9 | 66 | 23.1 | 37 | 13.3 |
Grave medicine accident | 203 | 76.0 | 115 | 83.9 | 58 | 20.4 | 237 | 77.7 | 158 | 54.7 |
Natural disaster | 173 | 67.8 | 97 | 70.8 | 49 | 17.4 | 214 | 71.1 | 138 | 48.6 |