Determining Staffing Requirements for Humanitarian Assistance Missions

Abstract

The primary mission of hospital ships is to provide acute medical and surgical services to U.S. forces during military operations. Hospital ships also provide a hospital asset in support of disaster relief and humanitarian assistance (HA) operations. HA missions afford medical care to populations with vastly different sets of medical conditions from combat casualty care, which affects staffing requirements. Information from a variety of sources was reviewed to better understand hospital ship HA missions. Factors, such as time on-site and location, shape the mission and underlying goals. Patient encounter data from previous HA missions were used to determine expected patient conditions encountered in various HA operations. These data points were used to project the medical staffing required for future missions. Further data collection, along with goal setting, must be performed to accomplish successful future HA missions. Refining staffing requirements allows deployments to accomplish needed HA and spread goodwill to underserved areas.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA561717

Entities

People

  • Carrie J. Brown
  • Paula J. Konoske
  • Tracy L. Negus

Organizations

  • Naval Health Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Casualty Care
  • Deployment
  • Disasters
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • Patient Care
  • Physicians
  • Therapy

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Medical or Health Care Field.