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Panel 2.1: Assessing Impact and Needs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

William Aldis ,
Gerald Rockenschaub ,
Yuri Gorokhovich ,
Shannon Doocy ,
Pisake Lumbiganon  and
Francois Grunewald
William Aldis
Affiliation:
World Health Organization (WHO) Representative, Thailand
Gerald Rockenschaub
Affiliation:
Regional Adviser, Disaster Prepareparedness and Response Programme, World Health Organization /European Region
Yuri Gorokhovich
Affiliation:
The Center for International Earth Science Information Networ work (CIESIN), Columbia University, NewYork, USA
Shannon Doocy
Affiliation:
Center for Refugee and Disaster Response (CRDR), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Pisake Lumbiganon
Affiliation:
Khon University - Thailand
Francois Grunewald
Affiliation:
President, Le Groupe URD Associate Professor, University of Paris, Paris, France
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Abstract

This is a summary of the presentations and discussion of Panel 2.1 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 assessing needs and measuring impact as pertaining to the responses to the damage created by the Tsunami. It is presented in the following major sections: (1) key questions; (2) assessing needs; (3) measuring impact; and (4) lessons learned and recommendations.

Keywords

assessmentseffectiveimpactlessons learnedneedstsunami
Type
WHO Special Report: Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 20 , Issue 6 , December 2005 , pp. 396 - 398
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2005

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