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Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Lessons for Worldwide Health Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Nancy L. Caroline
Nancy L. Caroline
Affiliation:
From theUniversity of PittsburghUSA, and the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREFl Box 30125, Nairobi, Kenya.
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I should like in these remarks to try to place the discussions of this Congress in a larger perspective and perhaps to broaden somewhat our concept of what constitutes a medical emergency, and what should be labelled as a disaster. I should also like to ask whether emergency care and disaster planning as we usually think of these activities are either affordable or useful when viewed in a global context. What are the day-to-day emergencies and major disasters of this planet, and are we addressing them properly with the emergency medical services systems as now constituted?

Type
Part I: Research-Education-Organization
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 67 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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