PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Disaster and Emergency Medicine
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1642255
This article is part of the Research TopicInnovative Strategies for Urban Public Health Resilience in Crisis SituationsView all 19 articles
Application and enlightenment of mobile hospital in medical support for sports event
Provisionally accepted
- 1Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- 2Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China
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With the vigorous development of sports events, the rising medical demand during the events has brought a heavy burden to urban emergency medical services. On the other hand, mobile hospitals, featuring strong mobility, high environmental adaptability, rapid deployment, and comprehensive functions, have shown great application value. This study provides an analysis of the unique advantages of mobile hospitals in rapid response and deployment, provision of on-site comprehensive medical services. Through literature review of the application of mobile hospital, the observation of mobile hospitals in the 2024 Tour Shanghai New City Cycling Race and the 2024 Shanghai Marathon, it is found that in sports events involving complex races such as cross-administrative regions and multi-stage races, mobile hospitals have significant application advantages, especially in improving the overall level of medical security of the race and significantly reducing the workload of emergency medical treatment. It shows great development potential.
Keywords: Mobile hospital, sports event, Medical support, Emergency medical service, Disaster medicine；
Received: 06 Jun 2025; Accepted: 14 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Bo, Mengyun, Jian, Jiaqi, Ang and Long. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Zhang Ang, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Xue Long, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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