Analysis of the Current Situation and Problems of China’s National Infectious Disease Network Direct Reporting System Under the COVID-19

Chang Liu, Yuanshan Liang, Mengqi Zhu

2022

Abstract

Considering the highly transmissible feature of infectious diseases, each country establishes its surveillance system for infectious diseases to restrain the spread of infectious diseases quickly. This is the first step of humanity’s “war against epidemics”. This paper briefly reviews the development of China’s national infectious disease network direct reporting model. From the early days of handwriting and mail delivery to the world’s largest direct reporting system for infectious diseases, China’s digital government has brought a huge breakthrough in preventing infectious diseases. However, the direct reporting system for infectious diseases, which was claimed to be able to reach the National Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in China within 2 hours, did not work as expected during the early outbreak of “COVID-19” in early 2020. Therefore, this paper explores the basic reasons for the “non-functioning” of the network direct reporting system and, hence, discusses the problems of digital government in infectious disease surveillance and the important role of advanced technology in infectious disease surveillance systems. Finally, suggestions are made for the direct reporting system of infectious disease networks in China.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Liu C., Liang Y. and Zhu M. (2022). Analysis of the Current Situation and Problems of China’s National Infectious Disease Network Direct Reporting System Under the COVID-19. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Economic Management and Model Engineering - Volume 1: ICEMME; ISBN 978-989-758-636-1, SciTePress, pages 648-653. DOI: 10.5220/0012041400003620

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icemme22,
author={Chang Liu and Yuanshan Liang and Mengqi Zhu},
title={Analysis of the Current Situation and Problems of China’s National Infectious Disease Network Direct Reporting System Under the COVID-19},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Economic Management and Model Engineering - Volume 1: ICEMME},
year={2022},
pages={648-653},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012041400003620},
isbn={978-989-758-636-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Economic Management and Model Engineering - Volume 1: ICEMME
TI - Analysis of the Current Situation and Problems of China’s National Infectious Disease Network Direct Reporting System Under the COVID-19
SN - 978-989-758-636-1
AU - Liu C.
AU - Liang Y.
AU - Zhu M.
PY - 2022
SP - 648
EP - 653
DO - 10.5220/0012041400003620
PB - SciTePress