Barriers to integrating crisis standards of care principles into international disaster response plans : workshop summary / Bruce M. Altevogt, Clare Stroud, and Theresa Wizemann, rapporteurs ; Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events ; Board on Health Sciences Policy.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Altevogt, Bruce M.

Stroud, Clare.

Wizemann, Theresa M.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Sciences Policy.

Conference Name:

World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine (17th : 2011 : Beijing, China)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster relief--Congresses.

Disaster relief.

Emergency management--Congresses.

Emergency management.

Physical Description:

xi, 30 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Institute of Medicine : National Academies Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When a nation or region prepares for public health emergencies such as a pandemic influenza, a large-scale earthquake, or any major disaster scenario in which the health system may be destroyed or stressed to its limits, it is important to describe how standards of care would change due to shortages of critical resources. At the 17th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, the IOM Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness sponsored a session that focused on the promise of and challenges to integrating crisis standards of care principles into international disaster response plans.

Contents:

Introduction

Surge capacity planning and crisis standards of care

The International Health Regulations treaty

Closing comments.

Notes:

"Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events ; Board on Health Sciences Policy."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-309-22181-1

1-280-38018-7

9786613558091

0-309-22179-X

OCLC:

923288180