Emergency Medicine and Public Health: Intersecting Strategies for Population Well-Being

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Critical Care".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 1776

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Division of Medical Rescue, Faculty of Health Sciences with the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk , 80-210 Gdańsk, Poland
Interests: pre-hospital emergency management and in-hospital emergency procedures; public health; disaster medicine

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1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Faculty of Health Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, 85-067 Bydgoszcz, Poland
2. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Oncology Center in Bydgoszcz, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Interests: pre-hospital emergency management and in-hospital emergency procedures; anesthesiology and intensive care and anesthesiology and intensive care nursing; medical didactics using innovative forms of education; research into medical and health sciences; EBM and EBNP; public health

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite researchers to publish a scientific report as part of the Special Issue titled “Emergency Medicine and Public Health: Intersecting Strategies for Population Well-being”. Emergency medicine and public health are two different fields of medicine, but there is a strong connection between them because they both aim to improve the health of society, albeit in different ways. Emergency medicine deals with specific health emergencies, while public health focuses on the prevention and management of the health of society as a whole. Collaboration between these two fields can include developing emergency management strategies, coordinating emergency responses to mass-casualty situations or epidemics, and conducting research into the effectiveness of emergency interventions.

This Special Issue aims to present the relationship between emergency medicine and public health as disciplines that work together for the benefit of society. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  1. Pre-hospital emergency management and in-hospital emergency procedures;
  2. Medical didactics using innovative forms of education;
  3. Cooperation in emergencies, mass accidents, or epidemics;
  4. Crisis management and the implementation of preventive measures;
  5. Use of telemedicine in emergency medicine and public health;
  6. Health promotion programs.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Daniel Ślęzak
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Dr. Przemysław Żuratyński
Guest Editor Assistant

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Keywords

  • emergency medicine
  • emergency medical services
  • cardiac arrest
  • injury
  • public health
  • medical didactics
  • telehealth
  • chronic disease
  • health promotion
  • healthcare systems

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Geriatric Syndromes and Their Relationship with Mortality in a Population of Mexican Older Adults Aged 65 and Over, Admitted to the Emergency Department of a Second-Level Care Hospital
by José Juan Gómez-Ramos, Melissa González-Guerra, Ingrid Patricia Dávalos-Rodríguez, María Eloísa Pérez-Ruíz, Emiliano Peña-Durán and Alejandro Marín-Medina
Healthcare 2024, 12(12), 1166; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12121166 - 8 Jun 2024
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The main objective of this study was to analyze the relationship between Geriatric Syndromes (GSs) and in-hospital mortality in adults aged 65 and older admitted to the Emergency Department (ED). The study included 202 Older Adults (OAs) who met the inclusion criteria. We [...] Read more.
The main objective of this study was to analyze the relationship between Geriatric Syndromes (GSs) and in-hospital mortality in adults aged 65 and older admitted to the Emergency Department (ED). The study included 202 Older Adults (OAs) who met the inclusion criteria. We conducted a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and collected clinical and demographic data. A univariate analysis was carried out for each of the GSs analyzed. Those variables with p < 0.05 were entered into a multiple logistic regression using the backward stepwise entry method to analyze the independent predictor variables. The average number of GSs per individual was 4.65 (±2.76). Frailty syndrome was the most prevalent (70.2% of patients). Our study found an association between mortality and some GSs, such as frailty (p = 0.042), risk of falls (p = 0.010), delirium, cognitive impairment, dependence, and risk of ulcers (p < 0.001). We found that cognitive impairment (adjusted OR, 6.88; 95% CI, 1.41–33.5; p = 0.017) and dependence (adjusted OR, 7.52; 95% CI, 1.95–29.98; p = 0.003) were independent predictors associated with mortality in our population. It is necessary to develop new care strategies in the ED that respond to the needs of aging societies, including the use of new technologies and personnel with experience in gerontology. Full article
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