Crisis Management and Education in Health

Švarcova, Irena; Hošková-Mayerová, Šárka; Navrátil, Josef

doi:10.15405/epsbs.2016.11.26

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“…In practice the assessment of emergency preparedness is generally performed in two directions. In the first direction the preparedness of the emergency medical service is assessed in individual segments of its activity following mass-casualty incidents (Tušer and Navrátil 2020;Svarcova et al 2016). Shortcomings are subsequently identified and proposals for increasing the quality of the preparedness of the emergency medical service implemented.…”

Section: Overview Of Methods Of Evaluation Of Emergency Preparedness mentioning

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Emergency management and internal audit of emergency preparedness of pre-hospital emergency care

Tušer¹,

Bekešienė

Navrátil³

2020

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One of the negative components of international travel is the higher likelihood of emergencies that affect a large number of people (mass negative impact on health), for example the transmission of infectious diseases, as e.g. SARS CoV-2 pandemic. The frequency and sources of mass-casualty incidents are currently changing dynamically, especially with the onset of terrorist attacks and large-scale natural disasters. Health services and emergency medical service (EMS) take part in addressing these emergencies. For this reason, this paper deals with the EMS emergency preparedness in the Czech Republic for an emergency events with a large number of affected people. EMS in the Czech Republic are not provided by the state but by individual regions. EMS in the Czech Republic do not have central management, nor do they use uniform data documentation. The investigation of the current situation has shown that the attitudes of EMS in individual regions of the Czech Republic to the tasks of emergency preparedness for mass casualty incidents are not identical. The current method of evaluating improvements in the quality of EMS emergency preparedness lacks consistency and is not comprehensively supervised. To tackle this, the paper presents an internal audit methodology for assessing the level of emergency preparedness of the emergency medical services. The authors therefore defined the decisive criteria and indicators assessing the quality level of EMS emergency preparedness at major disaster with multiple victim incident. When developing the methodological procedure of the preparedness evaluation, an algorithm was chosen, based on the gradual verification of the evaluation criteria and indicators by an expert group. Some findings and recommendations based on a research carried out in EMS in individual regions of the Czech Republic are presented.

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Emergency management and internal audit of emergency preparedness of pre-hospital emergency care

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Navrátil³

2020

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“…Special attention should be paid to places (so-called soft targets) where the occurrence of an emergency situation would have a major impact on the health and lives of people there. For this reason, it is necessary that not only the company management, the Integrated Rescue System, but also the population itself be prepared and able to react to the emergency situation [5][6][7][8], especially in a case when any kind of contamination can occur [9][10][11].…”

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Securing Schools against Terrorist Attacks

Hošková-Mayerová

Bekešienė

Beňová

2021

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The population is nowadays increasingly threatened by events that have an immediate impact on their health and lives. One of the most endangered targets are the so-called soft targets. These are such targets that are characterized by a high population concentration, and low or even no level of security against violent or even terrorist attacks. The research carried out by the authors clearly showed that one of the important and easily vulnerable soft targets are schools. This article focuses on the safety of schools and their facilities. The authors focused on finding out the safety of schools as soft targets in the Czech Republic. The security level of schools was measured at selected nursery, elementary, and secondary schools in the city of Brno. As well as technical elements, other factors contributing to the overall safety of schools were also verified. It was found that although a large number of schools have at least basic elements of security available, systemic and organizational measures are not sufficient for technical measures to be important.

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“…Traditionally, public health expenditure has been considered as a health resource in previous literature referring to the determinants of health status of population from a macro-level perspective [21][22][23][24][25]. However, it should be noted that, recently, there has been a movement towards including new categories of public expenditure related to health-such as social expenditures-in this type of literature [26], but government environmental expenditure has not been included in the existing literature so far.…”

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Life Expectancy at Birth in Europe: An Econometric Approach Based on Random Forests Methodology

2020

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The objective of this work is to identify and classify the relative importance of several socioeconomic factors which explain life expectancy at birth in the European Union (EU) countries in the period 2008–2017, paying special attention to greenhouse gas emissions and public environmental expenditures. Methods: The Random Forests methodology was employed, which allows classification of the socioeconomic variables considered in the analysis according to their relative importance to explain health outcomes. Results: Per capita income, the educational level of the population, and the variable AREA (which reflects the subdivision of Europe into four relatively homogeneous areas), followed by the public expenditures on environmental and social protection, are the variables with the highest relevance in explaining life expectancy at birth in Europe over the perip.1 he peusto el correo e inciod 2008–2017. Conclusions: We have identified seven sectors as the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions: Electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning supply; manufacturing; transportation and storage; agriculture, forestry, and fishing; construction; wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles; and mining and quarrying. Therefore, any public intervention related to environmental policy should be aimed at these economic sectors. Furthermore, it will be more effective to focus on public programs with higher relevance to the health status of the population, such as environmental and social protection expenditures.

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Crisis Management and Education in Health

Cited by 40 publications

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Emergency management and internal audit of emergency preparedness of pre-hospital emergency care

Emergency management and internal audit of emergency preparedness of pre-hospital emergency care

Securing Schools against Terrorist Attacks

Life Expectancy at Birth in Europe: An Econometric Approach Based on Random Forests Methodology

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