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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"emergency services"”.
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Hospital emergency services: modeling a dynamic system.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1972. M.S .
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“The Forgotten Helpers? Life After the Emergency Services”
Background: The impact of emergency service work on the health and well-being of personnel has been well documented in the literature. Despite this, however, very little is known about the experiences of emergency service retirees and their Quality of Life (QoL). Aims: The principal aim of this …
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Post traumatic stress and debriefing in the emergency services.
… on the effects of disaster on both victims and emergency personnel. A number of theoretical conceptualisations are offered to describe how a proportion of those exposed to catastrophic events subsequently develop a variety of disabling conditions. Implications for treatment are discussed, …
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Family and Clinician Effects on Costs of Psychiatric Emergency Services Dispositions
Families play a key role in psychiatric emergency services (PES). Given the cost of PES in terms of dollars and restrictiveness, clients, families, providers, payers, and policymakers involved in these services need more understanding of how families affect these key PES outcomes. Marriage and …
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Structural Explanations, Need, Or Rurality: Predicting Availability Of Domestic Violence Emergency Services
… if rural women are able to receive the services they need, I propose to answer five research questions using data from Illinois: (1) Does the availability of services for victims of domestic violence vary by the degree of rurality of the county? (2) Are measures of social disorganization …
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Study to evaluate paediatric Accident and Emergency services within England and Wales
… Study aimed to describe paediatric Accident and Emergency (A&E) care within England and Wales, identify barriers to providing a service which complies with guidelines and to recommend action to improve child centred A&E care within the West Midland’s A&E departments. A questionnaire built upon …
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Risk Propensity, Self-Efficacy and Driving Behaviors Among Rural, Off-Duty Emergency Services Personnel
<p>Emergency medical services personnel work in a fast-paced, stressful environment requiring rapid, efficient response to critical situations, creating unique safety considerations within the workforce. With an occupational fatality rate notably higher than average, most of which are attributed to …
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Measuring and Enhancing the Resilience of Interdependent Power Systems, Emergency Services, and Social Communities
… infrastructures such as power systems and emergency services and social networks is critical for building a resilient community. As a result, we require metrics that account for both the social and infrastructure aspects of the community. While the literature on critical infrastructures …
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Continual exposure to trauma in the emergency services: an investigation into the psychological effects on new recruits
… exposure to trauma on new recruits to the emergency services. Changes over a three-month period, in which trainee ambulance technicians were continually exposed to trauma, were measured in terms of anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress symptomatology, world assumptions, and perceived …
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Interweaving the Strengths of Relationality and Hierarchy in Emergency Services: A First-Person Approach to Enhancing My Leadership Practice
… of progressive leadership experience in the emergency services sector, I have consistently experienced and observed a misalignment between the relational connection that drew me to the field and the command-and-control structures I have had to navigate. When it has been acknowledged that the …
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Why preventive human services in Massachusetts have suffered more from government cutbacks than emergency services : an exploration of the validity, history and implications of a differential funding explanation
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1983.
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Regulación y organización de servicios de atención de emergencia y protección civil: diseño de un sistema asimétrico, multifuncional y multifactorial
… which is the incident. Under the heading of emergency services, today are also included the civil protection, so it is understood that the first concept includes the emergency medical services, prevention services, firefighting and rescue, the maritime rescue and civil protection. This thesis …
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The emergency care of young people who self-harm: an exploration of attitudes towards young people who self-harm and the care they receive from practitioners working in pre-hospital and hospital based emergency services
… this thesis seeks to explore the attitudes of emergency care staff towards young people (aged 12− 18 years) who self-harm and to gain an understanding of the basis of attitudes that exist. Background: This thesis has drawn on Strauss et al’s (1964), concept of the hospital as a negotiated …
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Hogar SOS
… model through a digital platform for domestic emergency care in Lima, Peru. Having achieved the feasibility objectives of the business model, we are sure that we will be able to take the next steps of both regional and global scalability. The study was carried out through two research methods: …
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Design and Implementation of a Sustainable, University-Based, Emergency Medical Response Service
<p>Collegiate-based emergency medical services (EMS), designed primarily to provide pre-hospital basic life support and emergency services, are venues by which nurses and other healthcare professionals, with an understanding of community health and social network issues, can maximize health …
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Developing the concept of an integrated emergency response system for the tourism industry: case study of the cruise ship industry.
… tourism industry is vulnerable to all kinds of emergency events. These events are in turn impacted by further complexities arising from a range of consequences, themselves exacerbated by inevitable knock-on effects. As a result, the tourism industry is vulnerable to physical damage and loss to …
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