The purposes of the Conference include a wide array of activities that range from the handling of a large number of sick and injured people in times of disaster to the establishment of interdisciplinary “disaster medicine” as an area of medical science, further to responses to disasters, including medical services and international humanitarian assistance, to address both natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and flood and human-caused disasters such as conflict, terrorism, and radiological disasters, and still further to the evaluation thereof. |
