Accidents epidemics

Scitovsky et al. (1986) calculated the average cost per AIDS-related hospital admission as US 9,024 ranging from US 7,026 to US 23,425. A more comprehensive picture is presented by Scitovsky and Rice (1987), who estimated provider cost of the AIDS epidemic in the United States in 1985, 1986, and 1991, based on prevalence estimates provided by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). They predicted that the core provider costs of AIDS would rise from US 630 million in 1985 to US 1.1 billion in 1986 and to US 8.5 billion in 1991. The authors compared their estimates of the cost of AIDS in the USA with the estimates for end-stage renal disease (US 2.2 billion), traffic accidents (US 5.6 billion), lung cancer (US 2.7 billion), and breast cancer (US 2.2 billion). They concluded that the core provider costs of AIDS were relatively low in comparison with the provider costs of all illness as well as the costs of these other diseases. However, they also assessed the non-care costs (e.g., for research) to rise from US 319 million in 1985 to US 542 million in 1986 and to US 2.3 billion in 1991. 

This second edition features in-depth coverage of actual response techniques and new approaches for coping with critical situations caused by criminal activity, industrial accidents, or even mini-epidemics. Augmenting its coverage of field first aid for response personnel, this edition contains up-to-date tools such as checklists and streamlined procedures for on-scene coordination. It incorporates the latest detection devices, cost/recovery and hazard analyses, diagnostic methods, pretreatments, vaccines, decontamination techniques, antidotes, and medical treatments available. This edition also adds a focused review of the progress and projected developments for military protocols and procedures. 

Numerous apocryphal stories of the origin of HIV have circulated since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic HIV was the result of germ warfare research by the CIA HIV was a laboratory accident in recombinant DNA research HIV resulted from sexual relations between humans and monkeys. 

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The Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident in April 1986 caused an epidemic of thyroid carcinomas in children. Vast quantities of... 

Hospital in New York. The primary motivation originally was the thinly spread expertise around the world for certain specialized types of surgery. Another motivation is the lack of availability of any kind of special surgery in certain remote areas ships and submarines at sea contaminated areas due to a nuclear accident, chemical spill, epidemics, or bioterror or in space (e.g., NASA or other remote missions providing the robots to be pre-located or delivered). 

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The pain, dysfunction, disability, and anguish resulting from technical medical intervention now rival the morbidity due to traffic and industrial accidents and even war-related activities, and make the impact of medicine one of the most rapidly spreading epidemics of our time. Amongst murderous institutional torts, only modem malnutrition injures more people than iatrogenic disease in its various manifestations. 

We envision a time in the near future when regulators and internal teams under siege will be replaced by expert teams assembled from multiple sciences to conduct external reviews of health care accidents and near misses in pursuit of high reliability. These teams will share lessons learned publicly and end forever the conspiracy of silence. And no longer will valuable learnings be lost to combat the epidemic of our time medical accident. After all, if lethal medical accidents can occur in our best institutions, accidents can happen anywhere, and no organization is immune. 

Insufficient sleep and insomnia have been identified as contributing to significant cardiovascular morbidity. The epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome may be attributed, at least partially, to sleep loss. Traffic accidents due to sleepiness are directly connected to sleep deprivation. OSA has been pointed out as causally related to hypertension. Depression gets better after insomnia is successfully treated with CBTI. Sleep disorders drive healthcare costs up. These findings represent a call to action make sleep evaluation and improvement a mission of modern society. A first step is happening now spread the news to educate the population. The next one is at its dawn offer affordable solutions to detect and improve sleep. Mobile technology has great potential to serve an important role in the fulfillment of this mission. 

The techniques of epidemiological analysis were first applied to the study of disease epidemics and historical example will be looked at by way of illustration to show how epidemiological techniques can be applied to accident and incident data. 

Figure 1-1. Accident/lncidents are endemic and of epidemic proportions in the workplace. Courtesy of the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

The Epidemiological Approach arose from the formalized study of epidemics. It provides a conceptual framework for the many complex factors that affect the human work environment. Actually this approach is more a description of the hazardous environment than an analytical model. Haddon et al. (1954) summarized the factors contributing to an accident, i.e. ... 

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