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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2006-10-01
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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 |