| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
History of social emergency medicine -- Public health, population health, and health disparities -- Race and racism -- Gender and sexual identity -- Immigration -- Language and literacy -- Access to care -- frequent emergency department use: a social emergency medicine perspective -- Substance use: a social emergency medicine perspective -- Education and employment -- Financial insecurity -- Food insecurity -- Homelessness -- Housing instability and quality -- Transportation -- Legal needs -- Neighborhoods and the built environment -- Violence -- Firearm injury -- Incarceration -- Human trafficking |
| Summary |
Social Emergency Medicine incorporates consideration of patients social needs and larger structural context into the practice of emergency care and related research. In doing so, the field explores the interplay of social forces and the emergency care system as they influence the well-being of individual patients and the broader community. Social Emergency Medicine recognizes that in many cases typical fixes such as prescriptions and follow-up visits are not enough; the need for housing, a safe neighborhood in which to exercise or socialize, or access to healthy food must be identified and addressed before patients health can be restored. While interest in the subject is growing rapidly, the field of Social Emergency Medicine to date has lacked a foundational text a gap this book seeks to fill. This book includes foundational chapters on the salience of racism, gender and gender identity, immigration, language and literacy, and neighborhood to emergency care. It provides readers with knowledge and resources to assess and assist emergency department patients administrators, and other professionals who recognize that high-quality emergency care extends beyond the ambulance bay |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Emergency medicine -- Social aspects
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Social medicine.
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Emergency medicine.
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Emergency Medicine
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Social Medicine
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Emergency medicine
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Emergency medicine -- Social aspects
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Social medicine
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Medicina social.
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Medicina d'urgència.
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| Genre/Form |
Llibres electrònics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alter, Harrison J., editor.
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Dalawari, Preeti, editor.
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Doran, Kelly M., editor.
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Raven, Maria C., editor.
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| ISBN |
9783030656720 |
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3030656721 |
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