The policy doesn't specifically address the elderly or children, who are very vulnerable populations during disasters/ emergencies (but it does address pets and animals in Title IV).
Emily Goldman is an epidemiologist at NYU College of Global Public Health. She has an extensive background in public health. Sandro Galea is an epidemiologist and physician from Columbia University. He also serves on the NYC councils of Hygene and Public Health
The central argument is that healthcare professionals are not trained well enough in mentally/ emotionally handling patient relationships when providing end-of-life care for terminal/ chronic illnesses.
I looked further into Canada's health system, the Indian Act, and indigenous population centers in canada.
1. There is also a need for further assessment of the impact of violence, both on facilities and organizations, and also on populations served. These knowledge gaps have serious implications for the way the drivers of violence are understood and, by extension, the ability of organizations operating in complex security environments ability to effectively manage the security of their staff and facilities in order to deliver healthcare.
2. Within medical anthropology and sociology, violence is seen a social phenomenon that is culturally structured and interpreted, and the human body can serve as a site of contestation, where various types of power relations play out at individual-, community-, state- and global-level levels.
3. In the same vein, training among health workers and patients in complex security about the importance of reporting attacks and different reporting fora may reduce the number of incidents that go unreported and the accuracy and completeness of those which are reported.
"Front Line" emergency response is not directly discussed in this article, however long term public health response in a broader sense is referenced extensively, and how the new dependant populations were dealt with was one of the major points of analisys of this article.
This policy applies internationally, to 119 states who were subject to it after the entry to force date. 69 states signed the convention at the IAEA special meeting in 1986.
No bibliography for this article was provided or readily available on the internet. Based on the article and Dr. Good's works, it is likely that much of the information for the article was drawn from new research.
Some additional points to research to forward understanding of emergency response would be:
-Structural Violance
-Societal factors influencing public health
-nationalized health insurance.
This article used data from Baltimore about AIDS care, and the authors' research in Rwanda, discussing results from the Partners in Health structural interventions and comparing them to produce their claims.