J Korean Soc Emerg Med.  2008 Aug;19(4):366-371.

A Study on a current Legal Foundations for Emergency Medical Service in Public Facilities

• Ahn JH
• Kim HJ
• Kim MS
• Lee JK
• Lee DW
• Cho JP

Abstract

PURPOSE: Our country has seen a rapid increase in economic growth, national land development and planning. As a consequence, cities were enlarged and became densely populated. Public facilities were also increased to adequately serve the increasing population. Within the past 10 years, a lot of accidents in public facilities have occurred but the legal foundations for emergency medical care and systems for these public facilities may be lacking.
METHODS
From the current domestic laws, we defined the public facilities and the enrolled laws that govern these facilities. Adequacy of the enrolled laws were then analyzed using 7 reference points: education for all employees, education for security employees, education for customers, arrangement of medical persons, arrangement of security person, equipment for emergency care and penalty.
RESULTS
There were 17 enrolled laws and only 'Juvenile Activity Promotion Act' fulfilled most of the reference points except for 2; the arrangement of medical persons and penalty. Fifteen of the enrolled laws fulfilled less than 3 reference points.
CONCLUSION
In the current domestic laws governing public facilities, almost all of them practically lacked policies addressing emergency care and systems.

Keyword

Public facilities; Jurisprudence; Emergency medical services

MeSH Terms

Economic Development
Emergencies
Emergency Medical Services
Foundations
Humans
Jurisprudence
Public Facilities