Lessons learned from the Great East Japan earthquake: Impact on child and adolescent health

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 681-688

  Hayashi, Kenji ^a   Tomita, Naoko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

child and adolescent health; Great East Japan Earthquake; PTSD; radioactive contamination

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; ORPHANED CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIATION AND RADIATION RELATED PHENOMENA; RESCUE WORK; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY; TSUNAMI; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD, ORPHANED; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RADIOLOGIC HEALTH; RESCUE WORK; SURVIVORS; TSUNAMIS; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865685263     PISSN: 10105395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1010539512453255     Document Type: Article

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