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PubMed1993

Gulf war wounds: application of the Red Cross wound classification.

The Red Cross wound classification was applied to 63 casualties requiring surgery in the recent Gulf war. The majority of wounds affect only soft tissue, caused predominantly by antipersonnel fragments. Bullet wounds were fewer but tended to be more severe, often involving a fracture or vascular damage. We recommend minor modification to the classification to include scoring of significant neurological injury. Further, we feel that by recording the distribution of all wounds as well as scoring the casualty's two worst injuries, the incidence and pattern of multiple wounds are ascertained, which is useful in military surgical research. We believe that the Red Cross wound classification is valuable in assessing a wound as part of a secondary survey, but that this wound score has little part to play in triage. It may help to decide management of individual wounds in clinical practice and is useful for recording the nature of wounds for future analysis.

Evaluation Studies as Topic↗
PubMed1997

[Experiences as a surgeon in a mobile hospital of the German Red Cross--German Referral Hospital/Benaco (Tanzania)].

The German Red Cross Society participated in the international aid activities for the refugees of Ruanda. Among other duties the German Red Cross became responsible for the medical care of the refugee camp population of Benaco, Tanzania. From 1994 until 1997 the German Red Cross used its so-called Module Hospital. This is a transportable hospital, which can be installed within a few days. The technical facilities of this hospital are well adapted to the conditions of medical work in developing countries. The authors, who are surgeons, report about their experiences in this sort of emergency surgery.

Developing Countries↗
PubMed2001

[An attempt to combine humanitarianism and pacifism. The Red Cross and the Dutch movement for international peace].

Both the International and the Dutch Red Cross were heavily damaged by World War II. The Red Cross movement especially was blamed for its lack of care for persecuted Jews and political prisoners. To restore its reputation all kinds of initiatives were taken. Amongst these was an attempt of the Dutch Red Cross to cooperate with several pacifist movements in the Dutch Movement for International Peace and Security. It seemed a good and sensible initiative, especially in 1945, but although it was supported by international Red Cross resolutions, it failed. The DRC grew immensely in numbers in the years after 1945. With the cold war coming up the peace movement lost most of its popularity and therefore lost its attraction for the Red Cross as a partner. As in the rest of its mutual history, the attempt to humanise war did not mix with the wish to abolish it.

Altruism↗
PubMed2000

The American Red Cross disaster mental health services: development of a cooperative, single function, multidisciplinary service model.

Not until 1989 did the Red Cross officially recognize a need for a systematic and organized plan for the mental health needs of disaster survivors. Over the next decade, the Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Services program has developed and evolved to assist both disaster victims and the Red Cross workers who serve them to cope with the overwhelming stresses encountered by both groups in the aftermath of disasters. The Red Cross now coordinates a large and diverse group of mental health professionals from fields of psychology, psychiatry, nursing, social work, marriage and family therapy, and counseling who work together cooperatively. Cross-disciplinary conflicts are minimized by the Red Cross' generic approach to the various mental health professional specialties as functionally interchangeable in performing Red Cross duties. This article reviews the development of this process and describes one local Red Cross chapter's early experience as part of this effort.

Crisis Intervention↗
PubMed2005

Demand and supply of emergency help: an economic analysis of Red Cross services.

This paper analyzes supply and demand side characteristics of (voluntary) Red Cross services in Austria. The demand side analysis is based on a contingent valuation study on people's willingness to pay for emergency treatment, transportation services and disaster relief activities. The supply side is identified by a high percentage of volunteers in the Red Cross organization which makes the provision of emergency help at low cost possible. We find that aggregate benefits of Red Cross services exceed their cost of production. Policy conclusions are drawn with respect to future recruitment and funding: whereas intrinsic motivation is important for the decision to volunteer, and financial incentives play a minor role in general, the young Red Cross activists work voluntarily for self-realization reasons and to continue their education. Age-specific recruitment strategies accompanied by word-of-mouth advertising are recommended to address potential volunteers. As long as the volunteering character of Red Cross services will be maintained and cost of production will not go up an increase of funds does not seem necessary in the future. Moreover, a radical change in the structure of funding may crowd out both donations and voluntary labor supply.

Austria↗
PubMed1997

The Junior Red Cross goes to Healthland.

An amusing reminder of earnest attempts to teach the principles of public health, Junior Red Cross Time brought plays and games about "Healthland" to schoolchildren in the 1920s. Explaining why health education became part of the mission of the Junior Red Cross raises larger issues, such as the ideology and practice of the American Red Cross in war and peace, the place of health in the moral education of children, and the transition from the activism of the Progressive Era to the markedly different social climate of the 1920s. The Junior Red Cross promoted Healthland largely because it was an innocuous concept that had been stripped of potentially controversial features to adapt it to the conservative mood of postwar America. This process of dilution mirrored the fate of the adult Red Cross, which briefly and unsuccessfully sought to reinvent itself as a national (and international) agency for the promotion of public health. The unreality of Healthland is no mere coincidence; its separation from the real world was a crucial part of its appeal to the Red Cross in the 1920s.

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