It is essential to integrate and function risk communication and community engagement into national public health emergency response. Based on the interim guideline released by WHO and the situation concerning the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China, this paper suggests that risk communication systems should be enhanced in the highest levels of government. Specifically, internal and partner coordination mechanisms are required to be improved and activated, public communication should be more rapid and accessible, communication engagement with affected communities should be paid more attention, addressing uncertainty and rumor still requires effective measures, and both global collaboration and evidence-based decision-making should be involved in the outbreak control and prevention.
ObjectivesTo analyze the characteristics six types of cross-regional cancer patients and their medical behavior in Beijing.MethodsWe described the characteristics of cross-regional patients, analyzed the differences between cross-regional and local patients, and identified the key factors by analyzing the influencing factors of patient's cross-regional behavior to factors by using binary logistic regression model.ResultsCompared with local patients, cross-regional cancer patients had the following characteristics: consisting primarily of young and middle-aged workforce, simpler disease status and those more inclined to choose special hospital and surgical treatment.ConclusionsPromoting the construction of regional oncology medical center can meet the needs of cross-regional patients and relieve the pressure of medical treatment in large cities caused by cross-regional medical treatment behavior.
With the development of health technology assessments, the public are increasingly aware of the importance of assessing timeliness for health decision-making, which emerges the requirement for early and timely assessment for emerging health technologies. Providing early and timely assessments prior to a technology accesses the market or prior to implementation can provide decision-makers with sufficient time to develop an application program for a new technology. This paper mainly summarizes the profiles of three emerging health technology horizon scanning systems in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden, and compares and analyzes their related contents, thus providing reference experience for the construction of emerging health technology horizon scanning system in China.