A challenge for healthcare system resilience after an earthquake: the crowdedness of a first-aid hospital by non-urgent patients - Lin YX, Lin CH, Lin CH.

After a violent earthquake, the supply of medical services may fall short of the rising demand, leading to overcrowding in hospitals, and, consequently, a collapse in the healthcare system. This paper takes the emergency care system in Taiwan as the resear...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news