Panel 2.16: forensic aspects of disaster fatality management.
This is a summary of the presentations and discussion of Panel 2.16, Forensic Aspects of Disaster Fatality Management of the Conference, Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Phuket, Thailand, 04-06 May 2005. The topics discussed included issues related to forensic aspects that pertain to the responses to the deaths created by the Earthquake and Tsunami. It is presented in the following major sections: (1) overview of victim identification; (2) resource factors in mass-fatality management; (3) mass-fatality management in protecting public health; and (4) reasons to use deoyxribose nucleic acid (DNA) to identify the deceased.
Tun
Kan
K
World Health Organization (WHO), Sri Lanka.
Butcher
Barbara
B
Sribanditmongkol
Pongruk
P
Brondolo
Tom
T
Caragine
Theresa
T
Perera
Clifford
C
Kent
Karl
K
D004190:Disasters; D018732:Forensic Anthropology / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia; D014944:World Health Organization