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Chapter 15 - Mass Gathering Events: Community Events

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2024

William J. Brady
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
Mark R. Sochor
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
Paul E. Pepe
Affiliation:
Metropolitan EMS Medical Directors Global Alliance, Florida
John C. Maino II
Affiliation:
Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn
K. Sophia Dyer
Affiliation:
Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Massachusetts
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Summary

Community events can have several definitions depending on context. For legal definitions, the determination of a community event might have specific use of space, public or private for gathering, either public or nonprofit. This might change based on the local regulatory definitions. Other broader consideration of a community event is an event with a gathering of people, sometime defined as more than fifty for a multitude of purposes. Concert, protest, festival, graduations, street-block parties, celebrations (such as religious, weddings, marking a holiday), for fund raising, or unplanned events such as social protest (for example the many protests and marches after the death of George Floyd or in support of Ukraine after the Russian invasion). Community events have benefits to the community, social connection, support for groups and individuals for whom the event was planned and financial benefit for community-based both municipal and private business. More longitudinal benefit to the community can come from publicity about the event and the community for tourism events outside of the confines of the event days.

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Mass Gathering Medicine
A Guide to the Medical Management of Large Events
, pp. 210 - 220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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