The Experience of the Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster

Disasters and Mental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 179-192

  Havenaar, Johan M ^a   Bromet, Evelyn J ^b  

^a Altrecht Inst for Mental Hlth Care   (Netherlands)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"Chornobyl"; "dirty bomb"; 30 km exclusion zone; Chornobyl disaster consequences; Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster; Phobia or psychosis; Radioactive cloud; Radioactive fall out and physical disease; Service development; Significant dose response relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248528461     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/047002125X.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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