Objective To study the factors affecting public health emergency work capability in order to provide reference to improve the work ability.
Methods All public health professionals of emergency response program were enrolled from 15 disease prevention and control centers of either district-level or county-level, and were interviewed using public health emergency work ability questionnaire. A two-level variance component model with public health emergency response institutions as the second level and professionals as the first level was established using MLwiN2.25 software to identify the potential impact factors of public health emergency work ability index(PHEwai).
Results The females' PHEwai was higher than the males'. Higher education level was associated with higher PHEwai. The young professionals' PHEwai was higher than the elders'; but in the same age group, longer working history was associated with higher PHEwai. No difference was found between the married persons and the singles; however, divorcees' or widows' PHEwai was lower than singles'. The institution's random effect of PHEwai was significant.
Conclusion In developing PHEwai improvement measures, not only personal attributes but also institutions' PHEwai at administration level should be considered.
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