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Folder Emergency Medical Services

Documents

pdf Emergency-care systems. Report by the Secretariat. A60-21 [May, 2007]  Published Popular

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pdf Health Systems: Emergency-care systems. WHA60.22 [May, 2007]  Published Popular

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pdf Legislation Study on Emergency Medical Care Systems in the English-Speaking Caribbean. [2010]  Published Popular

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Pan American Health Organization. Legislation Study on Emergency Medical Care Systems in the English-Speaking Caribbean. Washington, D.C.: PAHO, © 2010. 19 pgs.

PAHO/HSS/HR&SP/2010/005

Contents: 

Part 1 of the Paper is a preliminary section stating the objectives of the study, its methodology and variables of analysis, and sources of information utilized, as well as its structural requirements as set out
in the contractual document. Challenges posed are identified.

Part 2 of the Paper outlines the fi ndings of the study. In the majority of cases, although countries and territories may have pre-hospital emergency medical ambulance service, such services are not supported by legislative enactments. Th e supportive role that emergency ambulance service can provide in the disaster preparedness and response context of the English-speaking Caribbean is noted.

Part 3 of the Paper gives general conclusions on findings.

pdf Prehospital trauma care systems. [2005]  Published Popular

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 WHO. Prehospital trauma care systems. [2005]

WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Prehospital trauma care systems.

1.Wounds and injuries - therapy 2.Emergency medical services - organization and

administration 3.Emergency treatment 4.Manuals I.World Health Organization.

ISBN 92 4 159294 X (NLM Classification:WO 700)

Suggested citation: Sasser S,Varghese M, Kellermann A, Lormand JD.

Prehospital trauma care systems. Geneva,World Health Organization, 2005