Role of the emergency medical services system in regionwide health monitoring and referral.
Ann Emerg Med
; 22(11): 1696-702, 1993 Nov.
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| ID: mdl-8214859
ABSTRACT
The emergency medical services (EMS) system of the future has the opportunity to serve as a regional community health monitoring and referral system. Such a system would shift attention from care of the individual to cost-effective community health efforts using community resource integration, while emphasizing individual responsibility for health. This health care system model requires the establishment of a centralized monitoring agency, the "regional center." The regional center would coordinate the monitoring of regional EMS use and linkage of patients with essential health promotion and behavior change organizations. Many of these supporting organizations are in place but are functioning without the benefit of communitywide health monitoring or effective referral and follow-up links with other resources. Coordination through the EMS system and a regional center would permit these resources to be used in an efficient and accountable fashion. We propose a model in which the EMS system could contribute to coordinated regional health monitoring and maintenance, timely and appropriate health care legislation and regulation, and high-impact health care education and intervention in the setting of self-destructive individual behavior.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Serviços de Saúde Comunitária
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Serviços Médicos de Emergência
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Planejamento em Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Ann Emerg Med
Ano de publicação:
1993
Tipo de documento:
Article