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  1. The Science of Disaster Medicine: From Response to Risk Reduction

    The booklet titled "Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030" contains important global targets for disaster medicine as follows 39: (1) Significantly reduce global disaster mortality by 2030 and reduce the global mortality rate by 100,000 in 10 years compared to 2020-2030 and 2005-2015 (18/a).

  2. Primary health care disaster preparedness: A review of the literature

    1. Introduction. In recent years, a new comprehensive approach to disaster management (DM) has been developed, emphasizing prevention and preparedness strategies and efficient coordination of resources and information [1].In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (H-EDRM) Framework, which points out the pivotal role of health in DM ...

  3. PDF Disaster medicine- performance indicators, information support and

    Linköping University Medical Dissertations No. 972 Disaster medicine- performance indicators, information support and documentation A study of an evaluation tool ... Disaster medicine is a discipline that is generally regarded as being developed from military medicine (1,2,3,4). Although today there is no internationally accepted definition of ...

  4. Introduction to Disaster Medicine

    Disaster medicine is a discipline resulting from the marriage of emergency medicine and disaster management. The role of medicine and emergency medical services in disaster response has abundant historical precedence. Responsibility for the care of the injured from a disaster has been borne by the emergency specialist or its equivalent ...

  5. Disaster Medicine: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature From 2016

    Objective: The Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Disaster Medicine Interest Group, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response - Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (ASPR TRACIE) team, and the National Institutes of Health Library searched disaster medicine peer-reviewed and gray literature to identify, review, and disseminate the ...

  6. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

    Editorial board. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness is the first comprehensive and authoritative journal emphasizing public health preparedness and disaster response for all health care and public health professionals globally. The journal seeks to translate science into practice and integrate medical and public health perspectives.

  7. Introduction to Disaster Medicine

    Emergency medicine specialists have a role in each part of this cycle. As active members of their community, emergency specialists should take part in mitigation and preparedness on the hospital, local, and regional levels. Once disaster strikes, their role continues into the response and recovery phases. By participating in the varied areas of ...

  8. Insights in Disaster and Emergency Medicine: 2021

    We are now entering the third decade of the 21st Century, and, especially in the last years, the achievements made by scientists have been exceptional, leading to major advancements in the fast-growing field of Disaster and Emergency Medicine. Frontiers has organized a series of Research Topics to highlight the latest advancements in science in order to be at the forefront of science in ...

  9. Medical students' education in disaster medicine: A systematic

    1. Introduction. In its first priority for action "Understanding disaster risk", the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 recognizes that promoting education and training activities in the field of disaster medicine (DM) is a fundamental component of disaster risk reduction [1].At present, DM is not universally included in medical schools' curricula [[2], [3], [4 ...

  10. PDF The 2023 Model Core Content of Disaster Medicine

    The 2023 Model Core Content of Disaster Medicine is a living document that defines the foundational curriculum for DM fellowships, providing the basis of a standardized experience, contributing to the development of a board-certified subspecialty, and informing fellowship directors and DM practitioners of.

  11. The 2023 Model Core Content of Disaster Medicine

    Physicians*. United States. Members from the Council of Disaster Medicine Fellowship Directors have developed the 2023 Model Core Content for Disaster Medicine in the United States. This living document defines the foundational curriculum for DM fellowships, providing the basis of a standardized experience, contributing to the ….

  12. Disaster medicine and the role of the physician assistant

    OBJECTIVE: This is a proposed survey project to evaluate the perceived impact of state physician assistant disaster medicine legislation on access to care, and team communication and efficiency. This study hypothesizes that state legislation that allows temporary suspension of supervision requirements, out-of-state provider provisions, and ...

  13. Theses & Dissertations: Emergency Preparedness

    Theses/Dissertations from 2022 PDF. 1-Check UNMC Mobile App Usage: ... Theses/Dissertations from 2020 PDF. Exploring Paramedic Students' Level of Preparedness for Disaster Response in Hajj 2019, ... Estimating Disease Burden of Pandemic Influenza to Guide Preparedness Planning Decisions for Nebraska Medicine, Angelia Wimberly.

  14. (PDF) Analysis of the global pool of dissertations in disaster medicine

    The object of study is the global pool of dissertations presented in the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global electronic database, Health & Medicine section, for the period 1992-2020 and an ...

  15. The 2023 Model Core Content of Disaster Medicine

    Methods: A panel of DM experts was created from the members of the Council of Disaster Medicine Fellowship Directors. This council is an independent group of DM fellowship directors in the United States that have met annually at the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)'s Scientific Assembly for the last eight years with meeting support from the Disaster Preparedness and Response ...

  16. Disaster Medicine MSc

    These must include MB4090 Disaster Medicine (40 credits) and MB4091 Planning for Disasters (20 credits) as per PGCert. MB4094 Co-ordination and Management of Disaster Response (20 credits) Any combination of at least 2 optional modules (20 credits each) MSc - Requires 180 credits at Level 7.

  17. Literature Review: Disaster Risk Reduction Programs to Increase Public

    Background The key components of disaster risk reduction typically include risk assessment, early warning systems, public awareness and education, infrastructure and land-use planning, preparedness and response planning, and sustainable development. The third component is the public awareness and education. Educating communities about potential risks and how to prepare for and respond to ...

  18. Challenges of Hospital Disaster Risk Management: A Systematic Review

    This study aimed to investigate the challenges of hospital disaster risk management so that it can take a step to provide strategies and interventions to remove these barriers and improve the hospital disaster risk management (HDRM) through identifying and introducing them to disaster experts.

  19. Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

    The digital thesis deposit has been a graduation requirement since 2006. Starting in 2012, alumni of the Yale School of Medicine were invited to participate in the YMTDL project by granting scanning and hosting permission to the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, which digitized the Library's print copy of their thesis or dissertation.

  20. Dissertations / Theses: 'Emergency medicine

    Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Emergency medicine - Case studies.'. Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA ...

  21. Dissertations

    PRABHAKAR KORE HOSPITAL AND MRC". Appearing in April 2024. 9. DR.DASI VENKATA S REDDY. DR. MADHAV PRABHU. "STUDY OF CORRELATION BETWEEN LABORATORY BLOOD BIOMARKERS AT THE TIME OF ADMISSION WITH FINAL CLINICAL OUTCOME IN COVID 19 PATIENTS AT KLE DR PRABHAKAR KORE HOSPITAL" - A ONE YEAR HOSPITAL BASED CROSS- SECTIONAL STUDY, Appearing in ...

  22. Scholarly impact of the dissertation requirement for postgraduate

    Therefore, transforming research dissertations into publications is dependent, in part, on academic motivation of the graduating resident or supervisor. Emergency medicine (EM) is a relatively young specialty in Turkey. Although it has been officially recognized since 1993, the first residents graduated in 1998.

  23. PDF Dvera Saxton CSU Member Campus Preference: Qualified: References Contacted

    Op-Ed: A Cocktail Recipe for Public Health Disaster, Monterey Herald, March 2016 . Dvera I. Saxton, Ph.D. ... Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, 2010-2011 American University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dissertation Research and Writing ... Washington State University School of Medicine and Office of

  24. A literature review on the impact of disasters on healthcare systems

    2. Importance of nursing in disaster management and response. Recent progress has highlighted the crucial role of nursing in disaster management and response ().Nurses are often the first point of contact for patients in disaster settings and play a critical role in triaging patients and providing basic medical care ().In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition of the importance ...