Strategy 2020 - European Reference Centre for First Aid Education
... Aid Science Advisory Board confirmed the paucity of scientific evidence on First Aid subjects. Many of the following recommendations have been made by extrapolation from the experience of health care professionals. Research is needed to ensure that future guidelines are based on a larger body of ...
... Aid Science Advisory Board confirmed the paucity of scientific evidence on First Aid subjects. Many of the following recommendations have been made by extrapolation from the experience of health care professionals. Research is needed to ensure that future guidelines are based on a larger body of ...
BECOMING A RED CROSS DISASTER MENTAL HEALTH
... new Disaster Mental Health volunteers to provide support within the local community and on out-of-state relief operations. Keep in mind that disaster relief needs are fluid and change daily. There may not be outof-state deployment openings at the time that you complete the requirements outlined belo ...
... new Disaster Mental Health volunteers to provide support within the local community and on out-of-state relief operations. Keep in mind that disaster relief needs are fluid and change daily. There may not be outof-state deployment openings at the time that you complete the requirements outlined belo ...
Emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The emblems of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, under the Geneva Conventions, are to be placed on humanitarian and medical vehicles and buildings, and to be worn by medical personnel and others carrying out humanitarian work, to protect them from military attack on the battlefield. There are four such emblems, three of which are in use: the Red Cross, the Red Crescent, and the Red Crystal. The Red Lion and Sun is also a recognized emblem, but is no longer in use.There were also prior disputes concerning the use of a Red Star of David by Magen David Adom (MDA), the Israeli first-aid society; the Red Crystal was created in response to these disputes, thus enabling the admission of MDA to the movement.In popular culture, the red cross symbol came to be a recognisable generic emblem for medicine, commonly associated with first aid, medical services, products, or professionals; it has been misused in toys, movies, and video games, outside its defined context. After objections from the Movement, derivatives and alternatives are used. Johnson & Johnson had registered the symbol for their medicinal products. The misuse of the red cross symbol turns out to become a kind of an even double misusage of otherwise occupied symbols when first aid teams and stations in USA are falsly indicated by the Swiss national flag by simply re-applying the original idea of the red cross symbol, namely by reversing the red cross symbol's colors, usually seen at US-american ski resorts for indicating first aid or ski patrols, for example.