Emergency Medical Services

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Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Edition)

1. 2. Intervention Cost–Effectiveness: Overview of Main Messages
2. 40. Interpersonal Violence
   1. The Nature, Burden, and Causes of Interpersonal Violence
3. 57. Contraception
4. 61. Natural Disaster Mitigation and Relief
   1. Disasters as a Public Health Condition
   2. Interventions: From Response to Prevention
   3. Intervention Cost, Cost-Effectiveness, and Economic Benefits
5. 65. The District Hospital
6. 66. Referral Hospitals
7. 67. Surgery
8. 68. Emergency Medical Services
   1. Interventions for Emergency Care: Systems, Structures, and Organization
   2. Implementation of Control Strategies: Lessons of Experience
   3. The Research and Development Agenda
   4. Conclusions: Promises and Pitfalls
   5. Definitions
   6. Burden of Disease

Priorities in Health

1. 6. Providing Interventions
   1. Cross-Level Services and Inputs

Chapter Presentations

Chapter 02. Intervention Cost-Effectiveness: Overview of Main Messages

1. Neglected Low-Cost Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Traffic Accidents, Surgical Services, and Emergency Care
2. Neglected Low-Cost Opportunities in South Asia: Surgical Services and Emergency Care, and Tobacco Use and Addiction
3. Cost-effectiveness of Surgery and Emergency Medical Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Chapter 68. Emergency Medical Services

1. Estimated Cost-effectiveness of Combined Use of Trained Lay First Responders and Paramedics
2. Overview of Emergency Medical Services In Developing Countries
3. Deaths from Conditions Potentially Requiring Emergency Medical Services, 2001
4. Burden of Conditions Potentially Requiring Emergency Medical Services, 2001
5. The Emergency Medical Care Pyramid
6. Estimated Cost-effectiveness of Staffed Community Ambulances in Urban Areas
7. Estimated Cost-effectiveness of Staffed Community Ambulances in Rural Areas