Health effects of the Chernobyl disaster: Illness or illness behavior? A comparative general health survey in two former Soviet regions

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 6, 1997, Pages 1533-1537

  Havenaar, Johan ^a   Rumyantzeva, Galina ^b   Kasyanenko, Anatoli ^c   Kaasjager, Karin ^a   Westermann, Anneke ^a   Van den Brink, Wim ^d   Van den Bout, Jan ^e   Savelkoul, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Serbski Inst Social Forensic P   (Russian Federation)

^c Ctr Sociological Studs 'Oracul'   (Belarus)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chernobyl disaster; Health survey; Illness behavior; Subjective health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WELLBEING;

EID: 0031445850     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s61533     Document Type: Conference Paper

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