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Translating Battlefield Practices to Disaster Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2017

Kandra Strauss-Riggs ,
Kevin Yeskey ,
Aubrey Miller ,
Stacey Arnesen  and
Craig Goolsby
Kandra Strauss-Riggs*
Affiliation:
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc, and National Center for Disaster Medicine & Public Health, Rockville, Maryland
Kevin Yeskey
Affiliation:
MBD, Inc, Washington, DC
Aubrey Miller
Affiliation:
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Stacey Arnesen
Affiliation:
Disaster Information Management Research Center, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland
Craig Goolsby
Affiliation:
National Center for Disaster Medicine & Public Health, Rockville, Maryland, and Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Kandra Strauss-Riggs, MPH, Operations Director, National Center for Disaster Medicine & Public Health, 11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 1000, Rockville, MD 20852 (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Abstract

We review aspects of the recently released National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury most relevant to disaster health, particularly the concepts of focused empiricism and building a learning health system. The article references battlefield success utilizing these concepts and the emerging Disaster Research Response Program. We call upon disaster health researchers to apply the report’s recommendations to their work. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2017;11:510–511)

Keywords

researchlearning health systemmilitary translationfocused empiricism
Type
Concepts in Disaster Medicine
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , August 2017 , pp. 510 - 511
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2017 

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