1. SAPPHIRE Group, Health Sciences, University of Leicester, UK 2. Paediatric Emergency Medicine Leicester Academic Group (PEMLA) Emergency Department, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK 3. Emergency Department, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cobbett House, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Rd, Manchester, UK 4. Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Emergenc...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a regular series on emerging infections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the EMERGEncy ID NET, an emergency department–based and CDC-collaborative surveillance network. Important infectious disease public health information with relevance to emergency physicians is reported. The goal of this series is to advance knowledge about...

THE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES OF POPULATION SCIENCES ARE EXTREMELY RELEVANT TO THE DISCIPLINE OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: protecting and securing the population's health requires information about that population. While related fields such as security studies have successfully integrated demographic tools into their research and literature, the theoretical and practical connection betwe...

Public health preparedness has emerged as a major issue in U.S. health policy. The concept of public health preparedness encompasses many facets; one of the most central capabilities in a prepared environment is the ability to rapidly deploy emergency health care responders both during an emergency and in its immediate aftermath. In a post-September 11 society, public officials have redoubled e...

1Department of First and Emergency Aid Technician, Vocational School of Health, Erciyes University, Kayseri; 2Department of Surgial Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Erciyes University, Kayseri; 3Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri; 4Department of Emergency Medicine, Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri Vesile SENOL,1 Ferhan ...

Emergency medicine is on the front line of many important health issues, such as access for the poor and uninsured, the AIDS epidemic, and domestic violence. Virtually all key policy issues relating to emergency medicine deal with the concept of quality. During the 1970s, quality issues dealt with issues of value. Interest in quality is now vested in the tradeoff between cost containment activi...

The transformation of global health and the specialty of emergency medicine are both relatively new phenomena. Over the last three decades, they have developed rapidly and in parallel. Utilizing a review of the recent changes of global health policy and practice, and a review of the changing nature and understanding of the global burden of disease and its intersection with emergency medical car...

OBJECTIVES Health utility combines health related quality of life and mortality to produce a generic outcome measure reflecting both morbidity and mortality. It has not been widely used as an outcome measure in evaluations of emergency care and little is known about the feasibility of measurement, typical values obtained or baseline factors that predict health utility. We aimed to measure healt...

Over the last few decades, maternal health has been a major focus of the international community and this has resulted in a substantial decrease in maternal mortality globally. Although, compared with maternal illness, medical and surgical emergencies account for far more morbidity and mortality, there has been less focus on global efforts to improve comprehensive emergency systems. The thought...

OBJECTIVE To explore reasons for attending a general emergency outpatient clinic versus a regular general practitioner (RGP). DESIGN Cross-sectional study using a multilingual anonymous questionnaire. SETTING Native and immigrant walk-in patients attending a general emergency outpatient clinic in Oslo (Monday-Friday, 08:00-23:00) during 2 weeks in September 2009. SUBJECTS We included 1022...