At the deep end: towards a social emergency medicine

作者：Ryan D. McHenry, Cath Aspden, Joanna R. Quinn, John Paul Loughrey, David Y. Chung · 发表于：Emergency Medicine Journal · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1136/emermed-2024-214155 · 被引用次数：3 · 研究领域：Emergency and Acute Care Studies、Chronic Disease Management Strategies、Migration, Health and Trauma

People experiencing the highest levels of social deprivation are more likely to present to emergency care across the spectrum of disease severity, and to have worse outcomes following acute illness. Emergency medicine in the UK and Europe has lagged behind other regions in incorporating social emergency medicine into practice. There is evidence that emergency clinicians have the potential to mitigate health inequalities, through advocacy and intervention supported by high-quality research, while also acknowledging the limitations intrinsic to the environment in which they work.