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Violent sabotage of mass-gathering events.
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متن کاملCoordinated Enhanced Surveillance with Healthcare Entities for Mass Gathering Events
Introduction Mass gatherings can result in morbidity and mortality from communicable and non-communicable diseases, injury, and bioterrorism. Therefore, it is important to identify event-related visits as opposed to community-related visits when conducting public health surveillance1. Previous mass gatherings in Virginia have demonstrated the importance of implementing enhanced surveillance to ...
متن کاملNew digital technologies for the surveillance of infectious diseases at mass gathering events.
Outbreaks of infectious diseases at mass gatherings can strain the health system of the host region and pose a threat to local and global health. In addition to strengthening existing surveillance systems, most host nations also use novel technologies to assess disease risk and augment traditional surveillance approaches. We review novel approaches to disease surveillance using the Internet, mo...
متن کاملMass gathering events: retrospective analysis of patient presentations over seven years.
INTRODUCTION St John Ambulance Operations Branch Volunteers have been providing first-aid services at the Royal Adelaide Show for 90 years. The project arose from a need to more accurately predict the workload for first-aid providers at mass gathering events. A formal analysis of workload patterns and the determinants of workload had not been performed. HYPOTHESIS Casualty presentation worklo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1049-023X,1945-1938
DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x13008595