Subjective health legacy of the Chornobyl accident: A comparative study of 19-year olds in Kyiv

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bromet, Evelyn J ^a   Taormina, David P ^b   Guey, Lin T ^a   Bijlsma, Joost A ^c   Gluzman, Semyon F ^d   Havenaar, Johan M ^e   Carlson, Harold ^a   Carlson, Gabrielle A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Ukrainian Psychiatric Association   (Ukraine)

^e Altrecht Institute for Mental Health Care   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; GOITER; HEALTH PERCEPTIONS QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIGRAINE; NONHUMAN; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; THYROID CANCER; THYROID DISEASE; THYROIDECTOMY; UKRAINE; ADULT; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTHER; PREVALENCE; REFUGEE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MOTHERS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; UKRAINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72349085767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-417     Document Type: Article

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