tailieunhanh - Báo cáo toán học: " Including emergency and acute care as a global health priority"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu khoa học ngành toán học được đăng trên tạp chí toán học quốc tế đề tài: Including emergency and acute care as a global health priority | Risko et al. International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4 75 http content 4 1 75 o International Journal of Emergency Medicine a SpringerOpen Journal LETTER TO THE EDITOR Open Access Including emergency and acute care as a global health priority Nicholas Risko1 Emilie JB Calvello2 Sarah Stewart de Ramirez3 Mayur Narayan4 and Jon Mark Hirshon5 Abstract A recent important global meeting to set the international action agenda concerning non-communicable diseases NCDs failed to draw substantial attention from the emergency medical and surgical community. Advocacy efforts on the part of emergency clinicians should be increased to highlight the critical services we provide and create an approach to addressing NCDs with the most effective balance of preventive and acute care services. Acute care which encompasses all frontline treatment services for sudden or unexpected injury or illness can serve as a focal point for the development of the common language and body of research needed to draw the attention of global leaders and policy makers. Letter to the Editors Recently the United Nations UN General Assembly met in New York to discuss a topic of critical importance the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases NCDs . This meeting provided an important update to the 2000 World Health Assembly which presented a global strategy to combat NCDs resting upon the pillars of surveillance primary prevention and strengthened health care. Unfortunately over the past decade limited advocacy from health-delivery fields has led to an agenda that emphasizes prevention while giving inadequate attention to strengthening health care. Though prevention is essential acute care specialties that provide frontline treatment for sudden or unexpected illness or injury like emergency medicine need to take immediate and sustained action to highlight the importance of the services they provide. Aligning key players to support developing countries in planning for the