Non-Emergent Care in Emergency Departments

Dear Colleagues,

In addition to their mission of providing care, hospitals, and particularly Emergency Departments (ED), play a public health role. EDs often manage social problems, including poverty and social instability. Hospitals and their EDs are refuges for insecure local populations and migrants arriving in a given country. Emergency physicians are also led to manage consultations for administrative and legal reasons. Thus, non-emergent ED utilization and non-emergency care can represent up to 50% of the activity of an ED. This non-urgent care obviously impacts ED and hospital non-scheduled activities.

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, “Non-Emergent Care in Emergency Departments”, offers an opportunity to publish high-quality, multi-disciplinary workplace health promotion research. We are particularly interested in research and points of view dealing with activities other than patient care in hospitals, as well as non-emergent care in EDs. We are also particularly interested in the non-exhaustive list of topics in the present Issue including (but not limited to) hospital responsibilities and emergency care related to social problems, migration, social instability and poverty, and consultations for administrative and legal reasons. We welcome papers related to evidence of successful intervention strategies and management (both in policy and in practice, including instructional education/counselling, workplace environmental change, physical activity, use of technology, and incentives), as well as indicators/surveillance for/of these initiatives. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed by experts in the field, and are due by 30 November 2019.

Prof. Enrique Casalino
Dr. Daniel Aiham Ghazali
Guest Editors

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