Assessment of the risk of medium-term internal contamination in Minamisoma City, Fukushima, Japan, after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 587-593

  Sugimoto, Amina ^a   Gilmour, Stuart ^a   Tsubokura, Masaharu ^b   Nomura, Shuhei ^a   Kami, Masahiro ^b   Oikawa, Tomoyoshi ^c   Kanazawa, Yukio ^c   Shibuya, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c MINAMISOMA MUNICIPAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNAL RADIATION CONTAMINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOBIT REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WHOLE BODY COUNTER; YOUNG ADULT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; JAPAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT;

RADIOISOTOPE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RADIOISOTOPES; RISK FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901762588     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306848     Document Type: Article

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