The Development Course of Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention

In order to fully reflect the government's public health function, adapt to the changes of disease spectrum and medical model, expand the function of disease prevention and control, enhance the emergency response capacity of urban public health, optimize the resources for health and disease prevention, and improve the scientific and technological level of public health, under the attention of the municipal party Committee and the municipal government, in accordance with the principles of centralized prevention, comprehensive management, unified network, and up-and-down counterpart, institutions are integrated and functions are reorganized. Shanghai merged the former Shanghai Epidemic Prevention Station with the Municipal Institute for Occupational Disease Prevention and Control, the Municipal Institute for Parasitic Diseases Prevention and Control, the Municipal Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Center, the Municipal Center for Dermatology and STD Prevention and Control, the Municipal Cancer Prevention and Control Laboratory, and the Municipal Institute for Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases Prevention and Control, and took the lead in establishing the first provincial-level disease prevention and control center in China-Shanghai Center for Disease Prevention and Control. Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the core professional institution of public health to implement the health and disease prevention functions of the municipal government. It integrates disease prevention and emergency, monitoring, inspection and evaluation, applied scientific research and guidance, technical management and service, comprehensive prevention and health promotion, aiming at preventing and controlling risk factors, diseases, injuries and disabilities, and improving the health level and quality of life of the whole people. While continuing to strengthen the prevention and control of infectious diseases, we will actively carry out the prevention and control of chronic non-communicable diseases and health hazards, focusing on strengthening technical decision-making, information integration, prevention and control implementation, applied research and preventive services. According to the specialty of preventive medicine, infectious disease prevention department, chronic disease prevention department, environmental occupational health department and subordinate professional departments are set up. In order to strengthen government functions, highlight the core tasks of the government's health and disease prevention functions, and reflect the integration of professional disciplines and administrative management, Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention has successively set up comprehensive business management departments such as public health emergency disposal office, infectious disease prevention management office and information management office, and established an efficient business management mechanism that connects the government, unites professional departments and distributes to the community, thus enhancing the social management function and comprehensive ability of disease prevention and control.