Definition of vocabulary for epidemic prevention and control

COVID-19 is menacing, and all parties gather to help Hubei and help each other in the same boat. All sectors of society are involved in this epidemic prevention and control war that must be won. During the period of epidemic prevention and control, words such as epidemic prevention, epidemic control, epidemic prevention, anti-epidemic, quarantine and epidemic control frequently appeared. Now, the related words are slightly discriminated.

-Epidemic Prevention: Modern Chinese Dictionary explains: "Prevention of infectious diseases." The word focuses on "prevention", especially for areas with low epidemic risk and healthy people, prevention is the first. "Epidemic Prevention" is generally used in the overall work of epidemic prevention and control in COVID-19.

-Epidemic Control: Control means "control", especially in places where epidemics are found. The key point is to control the epidemic within a controllable range, such as the measures of "closing the city" in Wuhan, with the focus on epidemic control. "Internal prevention of proliferation and external prevention of import" are mainly aimed at epidemic control.

-war epidemic: this is a word that came into being under the epidemic. "War" can be matched with many challenging things, indicating active response, such as "map of war and flood". In addition, the homonym of "war epidemic" and "battle" can more vividly highlight the tension and urgency of epidemic prevention and control, so it is widely used by the media.

Anti-epidemic: similar to "anti-epidemic", this is also a word produced in the epidemic situation. "Anti-epidemic" means resistance and resistance, such as "fighting floods and fighting earthquakes". Compared with the initiative of "fighting", "fighting the epidemic" means something passive, which is more tragic and arduous. At the height of the epidemic in COVID-19, it was reported that medical workers were fighting at the front.

-Quarantine: Modern Chinese Dictionary: "Preventive measures taken to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in China and internationally. For example, people or goods, ships, etc. Check and disinfect people from epidemic areas or take isolation measures. " Ci Hai explains in more detail: "Measures to prevent some infectious diseases from spreading in China and internationally. Including: (1) contact quarantine. From the last day of contact with the patient, according to the longest incubation period of the disease, medical observation or isolation, detention, or other necessary preventive measures; (2) Epidemic prevention in epidemic areas. Check the personnel entering and leaving the epidemic area, and prohibit them from entering and leaving the epidemic area when necessary; (3) frontier health and quarantine. In order to prevent diseases from spreading from abroad to China, medical examination, sanitary inspection and necessary sanitary treatment shall be carried out on ships, planes, vehicles, traffic employees, passengers, luggage and goods entering and leaving the country. Quarantine agencies are located in international navigation ports, airports and stations. The internationally stipulated quarantine infectious diseases are plague, cholera and yellow fever, and AIDS and other diseases are monitored. " Article 3 of the newly revised Frontier Health and Quarantine Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on February 29th, 2007 (65438+2007) stipulates: "Infectious diseases mentioned in this Law refer to quarantining infectious diseases and monitoring infectious diseases. Quarantine infectious diseases refer to plague, cholera, yellow fever and other infectious diseases identified and published in the State Council. Infectious disease surveillance is determined and announced by the health administrative department of the State Council. " It can be seen that the interpretation of Ci Hai is still very professional. At present, the epidemic situation in China has been effectively controlled, and foreign import prevention has become the focus, and quarantine is the most important work.

-Curing the epidemic: In the process of epidemic prevention and control in COVID-19, "Curing the epidemic according to law" is a frequently mentioned word. The treatment here is not the treatment of diseases, but the meaning of "governance and management", which means that all epidemic prevention and control must be handled according to law.

Although the meanings are similar, mastering the nuances of words can better and more accurately convey the characteristics of epidemic prevention and control, which is worthy of careful analysis and application.