Mental health consequences of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster: Are the grandchildren of people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the drop of the atomic bomb more vulnerable?

World Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-

  Ben Ezra, Menachem ^a   Palgi, Yuval ^b   Soffer, Yechiel ^c   Shrira, Amit ^d,e  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BOMB; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; MENTAL HEALTH; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

EID: 84869159582     PISSN: 17238617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wpsyc.2012.05.011     Document Type: Letter

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