Background Catastrophic natural disasters and epidemics claim thousands of lives and
have severe and lasting consequences, accompanied by human suffering. The Ebola …

Gathering essential health data to provide rapid and effective medical relief to populations
devastated by the effects of a disaster-producing event involves challenges. These …

On the day of the 2009 Victorian bushfires the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine
activated its emergency plan. Within 48h a temporary body storage facility was constructed …

A ground breaking book that crosses cultures and contexts to provide a foundation for critical
reflection on the role of occupation in disaster and development. An occupational …

Skull-photo superimposition continues to be a popular method for suggesting individual
identification of unidentified human remains. In spite of the popularity in many countries, this …

The identification of individuals from mass grave contexts is a difficult process which is made
more challenging by a variety of taphonomic and situational variables, such as cause of …

It is recognised that each disaster is unique in scale, causation and long-term effects, and as
such different definitions have been published. The World Health Organization's (WHO) …

With the Tsunami destruction in Sri Lanka in 2004, coastal communities became vulnerable
to numerous environmental and socio-economic consequences. Besides, people tend to be …

Tsunami inundation was successfully reproduced for the Galle City, Sri Lanka using Delft3D-
Flow model and Delft Dashboard Tsunami Tool. Previously identified tsunami hazard maps …

Práce se zabývá dočasným pohřbením při hromadném úmrtí osob jako alternativa k
bezodkladným pohřebním službám, kdy dostupné síly a prostředky nejsou dostačující …