Table 2 Summary of the percentage of responsibilities for the 11 functions among the Health Inspection Department (HID), Health Inspection Authority (HIA), and Other Agencies (OA) at three administrative levels in 2012 (n = 602)
From: Aspects of the Health Inspection Authority in the People’s Republic of China
Functions | Provincial | Municipal | County | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
HID | HIA | OA | HID | HIA | OA | HID | HIA | OA | |
Issuing health administrative permits | 34.2 | 37.8 | 28.0 | 37.6 | 32.9 | 29.5 | 32.9 | 33.5 | 33.6 |
Health supervision and inspection | 11.5 | 83.0 | 5.5 | 6.1 | 86.3 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 84.4 | 8.2 |
Health testing and evaluation | 10.0 | 72.7 | 17.4 | 4.9 | 60.2 | 34.8 | 4.3 | 68.4 | 27.4 |
Case investigation | 3.9 | 96.1 | 0.0 | 3.9 | 94.8 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 96.0 | 1.0 |
Complaint handling | 0.0 | 99.2 | 0.8 | 4.5 | 93.5 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 94.4 | 2.3 |
Managing public health crises (e.g. Infectious disease) | 27.1 | 63.5 | 9.4 | 20.5 | 70.1 | 9.4 | 22.7 | 69.6 | 7.7 |
Monitoring and safeguarding public health at major public events | 13.1 | 77.4 | 9.5 | 12.3 | 75.2 | 12.6 | 13.5 | 79.0 | 7.5 |
Enforcing supervision and inspection compliance | 5.0 | 95.0 | 0.0 | 7.0 | 92.5 | 0.6 | 4.8 | 94.0 | 1.2 |
Public health education | 15.8 | 83.3 | 0.9 | 6.5 | 89.9 | 3.6 | 7.7 | 91.0 | 1.2 |
Information management of health supervision | 1.7 | 97.0 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 94.2 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 93.2 | 3.1 |
Health supervision team training and management | 6.4 | 84.3 | 9.2 | 8.9 | 86.4 | 4.8 | 8.5 | 85.1 | 6.4 |