Nuclear disasters and health: Lessons learned, challenges, and proposals

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 9992, 2015, Pages 489-497

  Ohtsuru, Akira ^a   Tanigawa, Koichi ^a   Kumagai, Atsushi ^a   Niwa, Ohtsura ^a   Takamura, Noboru ^b   Midorikawa, Sanae ^a   Nollet, Kenneth ^a   Yamashita, Shunichi ^b   Ohto, Hitoshi ^a   Chhem, Rethy K ^c   Clarke, Mike ^d  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Cambodia Development Resource Institute   (Cambodia)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM IODIDE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SHELTER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NURSING HOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RESIDENT; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WHOLE BODY COUNTER; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84938614015     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60994-1     Document Type: Review

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