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Post-War Kosovo: Part 1. Assessment of Prehospital Emergency Services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Vance K. Vanier ,
Michael J. VanRooyen ,
Julian Lis  and
M. James Eliades
Vance K. Vanier
Affiliation:
The Center for International Emergency, Disaster and Refugee Studies, Department of Emergency Medicine,Johns Hopkins University School of Medicineand Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Michael J. VanRooyen*
Affiliation:
The Center for International Emergency, Disaster and Refugee Studies, Department of Emergency Medicine,Johns Hopkins University School of Medicineand Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Julian Lis
Affiliation:
The Center for International Emergency, Disaster and Refugee Studies, Department of Emergency Medicine,Johns Hopkins University School of Medicineand Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
M. James Eliades
Affiliation:
The Center for International Emergency, Disaster and Refugee Studies, Department of Emergency Medicine,Johns Hopkins University School of Medicineand Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
*
Center for International Emergency, Disaster and Refugee Studies, Department of Emergency Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, 1830 E. Monument Street, Suite 6-100, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA E-mail: mvanrooy@jhmi.edu
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Abstract

The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) designated that the World Health Organization (WHO) develop health policy to assist in the recovery and rehabilitation of the post-war health system of Kosovo. As a critical part of the pre-policy evaluation, an assessment of current prehospital medical services was performed. This assessment identified a basic healthcare infrastructure upon which additional prehospital capabilities can be built, especially in communications, staffing, equipment, and transport services. To serve Kosovo properly in the future, it is recommended that capacity building must include the parallel development of emergency departments and specialty-trained physicians.

Keywords

acute carecapacity buildingemergency departmentsemergency medical careemergency medical servicesemergency physiciansevaluationhealthcare systemhealthy policyhospitalsinfrastructureKosovoprehospitalrecoveryrehabilitationtrainingurgjenteswar
Type
Part II: Complex Emergencies: Research Initiatives
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 16 , Special Issue 4: Complex Emergencies , December 2001 , pp. 263 - 267
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2001

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