Overview
Focuses on everyday changes that emergency practitioners can make in their practice
Discusses housing, food, community safety/violence, economic opportunity, education, and more
Includes specific tools that can be used for educating residents and students
Brings together previously disparate clinical, research, education, and policy information
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Underpinnings of Social Emergency Medicine
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Front Matter
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Social Constructs, Structural Determinants, and Individual Identity
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Keywords
- Cultural competence in health care
- Diversity in patient care
- Emergency prevention
- Emergency services for minority populations
- Inclusion in patient care
- Population health and emergency medicine
- Public health and cultural competence
- Social determinants of health
- Social emergency medicine and public health
- Social forces and the emergency care system
About this book
Social Emergency Medicine incorporates consideration of patients’ social needs and larger structural context into the practice of emergency care and related research. In doing so, the field explores the interplay of social forces and the emergency care system as they influence the well-being of individual patients and the broader community. Social Emergency Medicine recognizes that in many cases typical fixes such as prescriptions and follow-up visits are not enough; the need for housing, a safe neighborhood in which to exercise or socialize, or access to healthy food must be identified and addressed before patients’ health can be restored. While interest in the subject is growing rapidly, the field of Social Emergency Medicine to date has lacked a foundational text – a gap this book seeks to fill.
This book includes foundational chapters on the salience of racism, gender and gender identity, immigration, language and literacy, and neighborhood to emergency care. It provides readers with knowledge and resources to assess and assist emergency department patients with social needs including but not limited to housing, food, economic opportunity, and transportation. Core emergency medicine content areas including violence and substance use are covered uniquely through the lens of Social Emergency Medicine. Each chapter provides background and research, implications and recommendations for practice from the bedside to the hospital/healthcare system and beyond, and case studies for teaching. Social Emergency Medicine: Principles and Practice is an essential resource for physicians and physician assistants, residents, medical students, nurses and nurse practitioners, social workers, hospital administrators, and other professionals who recognize that high-quality emergency care extends beyond the ambulance bay.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Emergency Medicine
Highland Hospital - Alameda Health System
Clinical Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
University of California-San Francisco
Executive Director, Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine
Oakland, CA
Preeti Dalawari, MD, MSPH
Professor and Research Director, Division of Emergency Medicine
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Saint Louis Center for Outcomes Research
Saint Louis, MO
Kelly M. Doran, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor, Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Population Health
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY
Maria C. Raven, MD, MPH, MSc
Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Adjunct Faculty, UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies
San Francisco, CA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Emergency Medicine
Book Subtitle: Principles and Practice
Editors: Harrison J. Alter, Preeti Dalawari, Kelly M. Doran, Maria C. Raven
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65672-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65671-3Published: 07 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65672-0Published: 06 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 375
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Emergency Medicine, Public Health, Social Work