Waubonsee Community College

Emergency medicine and the public's health, guest editors, Jon Mark Hirshon and David M. Morris

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Emergency medicine and the public's health

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guest editors, Jon Mark Hirshon and David M. Morris

Emergency medicine clinics of North America, v. 24, no. 4

Foreword / Amal Mattu -- Preface / Jon Mark Hirshon and David M. Morris -- Emergency medicine and the health of the public : the critical role of emergency departments in US public health / Jon Mark Hirshon and David M. Morris -- Emergency department crowding : old problem, new solutions / Steven L. Bernstein and Brent R. Asplin -- The role of the emergency department in the care of homeless and disadvantaged populations / David M. Morris and James A. Gordon -- Health promotion and disease prevention in the emergency department / Kirk A. Stiffler and Lowell W. Gerson -- Injury prevention / Linda C. Degutis and Mark Greve -- The relationship between intimate partner violence and other forms of family and societal violence / Peggy E. Goodman -- Racial and ethnic disparities in the emergency department : a public health perspective / Sheryl L. Heron, Edward Stettner, and Leon L. Haley, Jr. -- The impact of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and abuse in the emergency department / Gail D'Onofrio, Bruce Becker, and Robert H. Woolard -- Death, dying, and last wishes / Catherine A. Marco and Raquel M. Schears -- Communicable respiratory threats in the ED : tuberculosis, influenza, SARS, and other aerosolized infections / Richard E. Rothman, Yu-Hsiang Hsieh, and Samuel Yang -- Emergency medicine and the public's health : emerging infectious diseases / Mark A. Saks and David Karras -- Update on public health surveillance in emergency departments / Shawn M. Varney and Jon Mark Hirshon -- The future of emergency medicine public health research / Karin V. Rhodes and Daniel A. Pollock -- Index