The traditional Chinese medicine has played an important role in the prevention and control of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Based on the role of traditional Chinese medicine in dealing with the previous epidemics and COVID-19, this paper analyzes the problems and challenges of current situation, and focuses on improving traditional Chinese medicine scientific identification, strengthening the construction of traditional Chinese medicine system, and increasing the intensity of Chinese and Western medicine and so on. In order to improve the cooperation mechanism of Chinese and Western medicine for epidemic prevention and control, and give full play to the role of traditional Chinese medicine in the construction of national public health emergency system, this paper also gives ten corresponding suggestions.
In response to the public health emergency and other urgent needs, World Health Organization (WHO) developed the concept and methodology of rapid advice guidelines (RAGs) in 2006. Compared with the standard guideline, striving to minimize the risk of bias, the RAG shortens the time to 1-3 months from more than 2 years. This study introduces the background, definition, application condition and performing methods of RAGs, and uses an example to clarify it, thus to provide a reference for the guideline development of public health emergency and other urgent need in China.
The rapid development of medical informatization and continuous innovation of artificial intelligence have made it possible to analyze data and predict prognosis through making full use of data analysis or data mining methods in medical field, which can provide not only more accurate basis of diagnosis and treatment for patients but also important decision-making reference for the government and hospitals to allocate medical resources reasonably. As a classical model for processing time series data in machine learning, long short-term memory network can break through some limitations of statistics to process large and complex medical data. The current applications of long short-term memory networks in medical and biomedical fields can be mainly summarized as seven themes, including natural language processing, biomedical information, signals, motion, clinical medical records, hospital management, and public health and policy.
In order to help Chinese guideline developers, clinicians, health policy makers and other relevant researchers fully understand and make appropriate use of the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, Chinese GRADE Center and Guidelines Review Committee of WHO (WHO-GRC) have written a series of papers about development methods, review principles and the structure and content of WHO guidelines. This is the first paper of this series introducing the basic principles and methods of development based on the WHO Handbook of Guideline Development and WHO Handbook of Guideline Development 2nd edition. We aim to provide guidance for Chinese guideline developers, and promote the development of high-quality guideline.
Traditional Chinese medicine has been used for the treatment of many diseases including acute infections often associated with public health emergencies for thousands of years. However, clinical evidence supporting the use of these treatments is insufficient, and the mechanism for using Chinese medicine therapy in the public health setting has not been fully established. In this report, the Evidence-based Traditional and Integrative Chinese medicine Responding to Public Health Emergencies Working Group proposed five recommendations to facilitate the inclusion of Chinese medicine as part of our responses to public health emergencies. It is expected that the Working Group’s proposals may promote the investigation and practice of Chinese Medicine in public health settings.
Objective To study and analyze the related data to emergent public health events in 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake and two years before and after the earthquake, to examine the emergent health control system of Sichuan in terms of organization, implement, current status and problems, so as to offer first-hand data and decision-making references to the perfection of the monitoring system and raising the effect of control and prevention of the emergent public health envents effect. Methods The report data were statistically analyzed by Excel, EpiInfo software. Results Between 2006 and 2010, the emergent public health events in Sichuan had reduced gradually year by year, and a wave trough was formed in 2008 when Wenchuan Earthquake attacked; the emergent public health events in each year mainly took place in two peaks, one was from April to June and the other was from September to November. Compared with the period between 2006 and 2010, five among six heavily afflicted cities and prefectures with 18 heavily damaged counties in 2008 had dropped in the listing of emergent public health events. Between 2006 and 2010, the emergent public health events happening in schools of Sichuan accounted for 75.00%, especially the township primary schools were on the top of each index as place, cause, morbidity and mortality, but there were no serious emergent public health events. Among nine types of emergent public health events, the contagious disease events accounted for 79.30% while the food poisoning events accounted for 14.33%; and the contagious disease events mainly were respiratory tract infection diseases such as chicken pox, mumps and measles, and hepatitis A which were all preventable with vaccine, and accounted for 82.93%. Conclusion The construction of Sichuan’s health emergency system is a good foundation for the handling of emergent public health events. The emergent public health events in the whole province get gradually reduced year by year between 2006 and 2010, and all kinds of emergent public health events have been handled properly. With the national support for the disaster relief of Wenchuan Earthquake, the provincial emergent public health events after the quake in 2008 have scored the lowest level in the history without severe epidemics after the earthquake; and the plan of no severe epidemics within three years after the earthquake has come true with partner assistance in health system. By improving the control of contagious disease, food poison and preventable diseases, the incidence of emergent public health events can be dramatically reduced with lower morbidity and mortality. Only by means of multi-departmental cooperation and social participation for jointly preventing and controlling school emergent public health events, especially for preventing and controlling the contagious diseases in countryside and township primary schools, can all kinds of emergent public health events be timely prevented and controlled with decreased hazard.