大規模災害時の死因調査について

Medical examiners of Hyogo Prefecture performed the medical investigation for human casualties on the great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake. The collaboration between medical and architectonics brought the most effective and integral disaster countermeasure for reduction of human casualties which strengthen existing houses and buildings. Thus, not just earthquake disaster, medical investigation for human casualties on natural, industrial and/or criminal disaster is the most elemental research to draw countermeasure of mass-disaster. In recent, emerging social instability, it is necessary to establish the medical investigation system for suspicious deaths with the purpose of realization to local community with reassurance and safety.