Barriers to Integrating Crisis Standards of Care Principles into International Disaster Response Plans

Workshop Summary

Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events (Autoren)

Theresa Wizemann, Clare Stroud (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

42 Seiten

2012
National Academies Press (Verlag)
978-0-309-22178-8 (ISBN)

Infos

When a nation or region prepares for public health emergencies such as a pandemic influenza, a large-scale earthquake, or any major disaster scenario in which the health system may be destroyed or stressed to its limits, it is important to describe how standards of care would change due to shortages of critical resources. At the 17th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, the IOM Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness sponsored a session that focused on the promise of and challenges to integrating crisis standards of care principles into international disaster response plans.

Table of Contents


Front Matter
Workshop Summary
Appendix A: References
Appendix B: Agenda

Inhalt

1 Front Matter; 2 Workshop Summary; 3 Appendix A: References; 4 Appendix B: Agenda

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Washington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• ISBN-10: 0-309-22178-1 / 0309221781
• ISBN-13: 978-0-309-22178-8 / 9780309221788
• Zustand: Neuware