Post-crisis efforts towards recovery and resilience after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 700-707

  Yamashita, Shunichi ^a,b   Takamura, Noboru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; Fukushima; Radiation; Resilience; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DISASTER PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FALLOUT; FEAR; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; THYROID CANCER; COPING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIATION DOSE; RISK; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE; USSR;

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE; USSR;

EID: 84939546726     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyv076     Document Type: Review

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