The voice of the most vulnerable: Lessons from the nuclear crisis in Fukushima, Japan

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 629-630

  Sugimoto, A ^a   Krull, S ^a   Nomura, S ^a   Morita, T ^b   Tsubokura, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; NATURAL DISASTER; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MONITORING; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TSUNAMI; URINALYSIS;

DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84864517092     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.11.094474     Document Type: Article

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