Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hoang, Bui Hai
• Mai, Thi Hue
• Dinh, Thai Son
• Nguyen, Thanh
• Dang, Trung Anh
• Le, Van Cuong
• Luong, Quoc Chinh
• Nakahara, Shinji

Titel

Unmet Need for Emergency Medical Services in Hanoi, Vietnam

Ist Teil von

• JMA Journal, 2021/07/15, Vol.4(3), pp.277-280

Ort / Verlag

Japan Medical Association / The Japanese Associaiton of Medical Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Low- and middle-income countries urgently need to improve emergency medical services (EMSs) as a component of their healthcare systems. Here, we detailed EMS resources and their provision in Hanoi, Vietnam, and discussed necessary policies to upgrade EMSs. Between 2013 and 2018, EMS resources, measured as provider-to-population and ambulance-to-population ratios, decreased, whereas service provision, measured as the number of patients transported by ambulance per population, increased. EMS resources and their provision in Hanoi are far below the standards of high-income countries or figures in neighboring Asian countries. Therefore, it is imperative to upgrade health policies for the appropriate allocation of healthcare resources to EMSs and hospital services.