A Study on a current Legal Foundations for Emergency Medical Service in Public Facilities.
- Author:
Jung Hwan AHN
1
;
Ho Jung KIM
;
Mi Seon KIM
;
Jong Khil LEE
;
Dae Wook LEE
;
Joon Pil CHO
Author Information
1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea. lovelydr@schbc.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Public facilities;
Jurisprudence;
Emergency medical services
- MeSH:
Economic Development;
Emergencies;
Emergency Medical Services;
Foundations;
Humans;
Jurisprudence;
Public Facilities
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
2008;19(4):366-371
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: Our country has seen a rapid increase in economic growth, national land development and planning. As a consequence, cities were enlarged and became densely populated. Public facilities were also increased to adequately serve the increasing population. Within the past 10 years, a lot of accidents in public facilities have occurred but the legal foundations for emergency medical care and systems for these public facilities may be lacking. METHODS: From the current domestic laws, we defined the public facilities and the enrolled laws that govern these facilities. Adequacy of the enrolled laws were then analyzed using 7 reference points: education for all employees, education for security employees, education for customers, arrangement of medical persons, arrangement of security person, equipment for emergency care and penalty. RESULTS: There were 17 enrolled laws and only 'Juvenile Activity Promotion Act' fulfilled most of the reference points except for 2; the arrangement of medical persons and penalty. Fifteen of the enrolled laws fulfilled less than 3 reference points. CONCLUSION: In the current domestic laws governing public facilities, almost all of them practically lacked policies addressing emergency care and systems.
