Concern over radiation exposure and psychological distress among rescue workers following the Great East Japan Earthquake

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Matsuoka, Yutaka ^a,b,c   Nishi, Daisuke ^a,c   Nakaya, Naoki ^c,d   Sone, Toshimasa ^c,e   Noguchi, Hiroko ^a,b,c   Hamazaki, Kei ^c,f   Hamazaki, Tomohito ^c,f   Koido, Yuichi ^a,g  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION DISASTER MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d KAMAKURA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^g Japan Disaster Medical Assistance Team   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MANPOWER; MENTAL STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RESCUE WORK; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RESCUE WORK; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84861156455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-249     Document Type: Article

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