Application of risk matrix method in risk assessment for public health emergency

Objective To identify, analyze, and evaluate the risk of public health emergency during the fourth sport game in Baoshan, Yunnan province, and provide suggestions for the control and management of risk, preparedness for the health emergency and effective prevention or response to public health emergency. Methods The information about public health emergency were collected from acute infectious disease reporting system, public health emergency reporting system, food borne disease surveillance systems, special infectious disease management system, as well as related data from US CDC, Europe CDC and WHO websites. Thirteen experts working in the field of infectious disease, endemic disease, and parasitic disease, immunization, health inspection participated in the assessment and risk matrix method was used to analyze the possibilities of public health emergencies caused by 12 kinds of infectious diseases, such as cholera, influenza and measles, water contamination and food born disease which might affect the sport game.Results The risk levels calculated with risk matrix were as following:the risk of food poisoning was high, the risks of cholera, influenza and other infectious diarrheal disease were moderate, and the risks of human infection with avian influenza virus, measles, malaria, dengue fever, Zika virus disease, hepatitis A, dysentery, typhoid/paratyphoid, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis and water pollution were low.Conclusion The targeted risk control measures were taken for the success of the sport game in Baoshan.