"Rescue Work" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Activities devoted to freeing persons or animals from danger to life or well-being in accidents, fires, bombings, floods, earthquakes, other disasters and life-threatening conditions. While usually performed by team efforts, rescue work is not restricted to organized services.
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Rescue Work".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Rescue Work".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Rescue Work" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Rescue Work" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Rescue Work" by people in Profiles.
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All-cause and cause-specific mortality in a cohort of WTC-exposed and non-WTC-exposed firefighters. Occup Environ Med. 2023 06; 80(6):297-303.
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A 15-year follow-up study of mortality in a pooled cohort of World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers. Environ Res. 2023 02 15; 219:115116.
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Lung cancer incidence among world trade center rescue and recovery workers. Cancer Med. 2022 08; 11(16):3136-3144.
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Impact of healthcare services on thyroid cancer incidence among World Trade Center-exposed rescue and recovery workers. Am J Ind Med. 2021 10; 64(10):861-872.
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Combining Three Cohorts of World Trade Center Rescue/Recovery Workers for Assessing Cancer Incidence and Mortality. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 02 03; 18(4).
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Comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder are associated with asthma morbidity among World Trade Center workers. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2021 03; 126(3):278-283.
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Revisiting the Battle of Solferino: The Worsening Plight of Civilian Casualties in War and Conflict. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2019 12; 13(5-6):837-841.
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Extrication time and earthquake-related mortality in the 2016 Taiwan earthquake. J Formos Med Assoc. 2019 Nov; 118(11):1504-1514.
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Apostle Islands National Lakeshore: A Review of Search and Rescue and Emergency Medical Services Operations, 2006-2015. Wilderness Environ Med. 2018 Dec; 29(4):463-470.
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Respiratory symptoms among search and rescue workers who responded to the 2016 Taiwan earthquake. Occup Environ Med. 2018 09; 75(9):639-646.