The globalization of emergency medicine and its importance for public health

Emergency medicine (EM) is a global discipline that provides secondary disease prevention and is also a tool for primary prevention. It is a horizontally integrated system of emergency care consisting of access to EM care; provision of EM care in the community and during transportation of patients;...

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Main Authors: Philip Anderson, Roberta Petrino, Pinchas Halpern, Judith Tintinalli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2006-10-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862006001000018&lng=en&tlng=en