Reuniting Children With Their Families During Disasters: A Proposed Plan for Greater Success

• 2007

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• Sarita Chung; Michael Shannon
PMID: 18274044

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This article proposes a plan to help reunite children with their families during disasters. When disasters happen, many children get separated from their parents and may end up in hospitals or shelters. The proposed system uses digital images and technology to identify these children quickly. As kids arrive at a facility, their pictures are taken and shared on a secure website. Parents can then search for their child by entering features like hair or eye color into the system, making it easier to find them fast. This plan aims to improve emergency preparedness for kids in such situations.

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Focus Areas: Natural Disasters; Violence

Audiences: Emergency Managers; EMS Clinicians

Emergency Management Stages: Mitigation; Response; Recovery

Bundles: Disaster Research Literature Review

Keywords: Biometry; Child; Child Welfare; Disaster Planning; Disasters; Emergency Medicine; Family; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Patient Identification Systems; Technology; Terrorism; Internet; Emergency Service, Hospital

Institutions: Boston Children's Hospital

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