Disaster medicine and health response to it
- Author:
Trung The Le
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
disaster medicine
- MeSH:
Medicine;
Natural Disasters;
Delivery of Health Care
- From:Journal of Preventive Medicine
2000;10(4):13-17
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The disaster medicine is a new profession of the modern medicine. The major features of the disaster medicine are prompt and urgent and timely respond to sudden events with a large amount of patient in the short-time and imbalance between the requirements and ability of respond. The health sector's responsibilities in the disaster comprised the evaluation of field, organization of health network, salvage, first examination and classification, evaluation of lesion, transfer the patients to nearest health facilities, epidemic prevention and control and strengthen of the local health network for resolving the disaster's outcome.
