Depopulation with rapid aging in Minamisoma city after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2357-2358

  Ishikawa, Kazunobu ^a   Kanazawa, Yukio ^b   Morimoto, Shigeto ^c   Takahashi, Takashi ^d  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MINAMISOMA MUNICIPAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADIOISOTOPE;

AGING; CANCER RISK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVITY; VACCINATION;

ADULT; AGED; DISASTERS; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84870986905     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12012     Document Type: Letter

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