Provincial Emergency Program Volunteers: British Columbia's Public Safety Lifeline

The British Columbia Emergency Medicine Network: A Paradigm Shift in a Provincial System of Emergency Care

As generalists, emergency practitioners face challenges in providing state-of-the-art care owing to the broad spectrum of practice and the rapid rate of new knowledge generation. Networks have become increasingly prevalent in health care, and it was in this backdrop, and the resulting opportunity to advance evidence-informed emergency care in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC), that...

Computational Public Safety in Emergency Management

Communications are very important in any situation but in emergency management it is imperative that the communications be reliable and responsive to the evolving situation. In emergency management there are many different types of networks with different objectives. It is of immense value to have the ability to seamlessly integrate other networks and computing resources into one interconnected...

Linking public health agencies and hospitals for improved emergency preparedness: North Carolina's public health epidemiologist program

BACKGROUND In 2003, 11 public health epidemiologists were placed in North Carolina's largest hospitals to enhance communication between public health agencies and healthcare systems for improved emergency preparedness. We describe the specific services public health epidemiologists provide to local health departments, the North Carolina Division of Public Health, and the hospitals in which they...

Evaluation of an emergency prevention program for mother to child transmission of HIV in British Columbia.

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to evaluate a province-wide program designed to identify HIV infection accurately and to prevent mother to child transmission among high-risk pregnant women of unknown serostatus. METHODS Between 2000 and 2007, 347 high-risk women were identified through the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) program implemented in 27 hospitals acro...

Public Safety, Victimization, and Perceptions of the Police in 8 RCMP Jurisdictions in British Columbia