TY - JOUR PY - 2013// TI - Executive summary: global health and emergency care-what do we need to know to address the burden of illness and injury? JO - Academic emergency medicine A1 - Hargarten, Stephen W. A1 - Martin, Ian B. K. A1 - Hauswald, Mark A1 - Hirshon, Jon Mark SP - 1213 EP - 1215 VL - 20 IS - 12 N2 - Emergency physicians are uniquely poised to address challenges in health services, health care systems development and management, and emerging global disease burdens (both communicable and noncommunicable). This special issue of Academic Emergency Medicine reports the results of the 2013 consensus conference, which included eight focus areas that are intended to advance emergency care research. Advancing our understanding of cardiac and injury resuscitation, ethics of research, health systems development, and the education of our future leaders in global health will ultimately affect the populations of all nations across the globe.

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LA - en SN - 1069-6563 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acem.12257 ID - ref1 ER -