タグ「health effects」
Title: The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station Accident, Ten Years After, International Cooperative Study on the Assessment of Health Effects
Reference: Journal of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan / Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Vol. 38 (1996) No. 3 P 184-204
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3327/jaesj.38.184
Abstract: 10 years passed since the Chernobyl accident. Through international cooperation research on the health effects was conducted
ＵＲＬ：https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jaesj1959/38/3/38_3_184/_article
Title: Chernobyl: the inevitable results of secrecy
Author: Alexander Shlyakhter and Richard Wilson
Reference: Public Understand. Sci. 1251-259
Keywords: USSR, health effects
Abstract: The Chernobyl accident was the inevitable outcome of a combination of bad design, bad management and bad communication practices in the Soviet nuclear industry. We review the causes of the accident, its impact on Soviet society, and its effects on the health of the population in the surrounding areas. It appears that the secrecy that was endemic in the USSR has bad profound negative effects on both technological safety and public health.
URL: http://www.broadinstitute.org/~ilya/alex/92a_chernobyl_secrecy.pdf
Title: A COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF HEALTH EFFECTS IN EUROPE– TWO DECADES AFTER CHERNOBYL
Author: Seidel C., Maringer F.J., Bossew P
Reference: Proceedings series, Mar 2008, 260 p, IAEA, Vienna (Austria), International conference on Chernobyl: Looking back to go forward, Vienna (Austria), 6-7 Sep 2005
Keywords: Chernobyl, environmental contamination, radioactivity, radiation activity, radiation exposure, health consequences, cancer
Abstract: This report sums up radioactive environmental contamination due to the Chernobyl accident in 1986 in various regions all over Europe (Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Sweden, Austria and Greece). Most of the radionuclides released with the reactor accident possess short-lives (e.g. 131I) of a few hours or several days and weeks or were deposed in low quantities (e.g. 90Sr). So the main focus was put on 137Cs, because this radionuclide has a long half-life (30 a), is measurable till this day and gives a presentable view of radiation exposure in contaminated regions. The decrease of 137Cs activity concentrations in soil, surface water, foodstuffs and air was shown in the course of time. The comparison of radioactive environmental contamination shows, that the 137Cs-activity concentration in nearly all media has decreased faster than the physical half-life. Part of this elaboration was also to describe the contribution of the reactor accident to the radiation exposure of selected population groups in the last 20 years. The second part of the report follows a valuation of European studies, which are linked to late health effects of the Chernobyl accident specially thyroid cancer, leukemia and other solid tumors. These studies has been discussed and evaluated. Only in countries with the highest impact like Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, an increased number of infant thyroid cancer has been observed but up to now no increases in leukemia or malignant deceases in this or other European countries can be detected
URL: http://www.colloquium.fr/06IRPA/CDROM/docs/P-040.pdf
Author: V.G. Bebeshko, D.A. Bazyka, A.Yu. Romanenko, K.M. Loganovsky
Reference: Journal of AMS of Ukraine, 2011
Abstract: Article by Ukraine’s leading experts. Comprehends aspects of radiation safety, health protection, ecology, neuropsychiatry, immunology etc. Full text available in Ukrainian on web.
URL: http://archive.nbuv.gov.ua/portal/chem_biol/jamn/2011_2/Bebeshko.pdf
Title: Health effects in a casual sample of immigrants to Israel from areas contaminated by the Chernobyl explosion
Author: E A Kordysh, J R Goldsmith, M R Quastel, S Poljak, L Merkin, R Cohen, and R Gorodischer
Reference: Environ Health Perspect. 1995 October; 103(10): 936–941.
Keywords: Health effects, immigrants (from Chernobyl-affected areas), Israel
Abstract: We analyzed questionnaire and physician examination data for 1560 new immigrants from the former USSR divided into three groups by potential exposure to Chernobyl radiation. Two groups were chosen according to soil contamination by cesium-137 at former residences, as confirmed by our findings in a 137Cs body burden study. The third group consisted of “liquidators,” persons who worked at the Chernobyl site after the disaster. Liquidators had greater self-reported incidences of symptoms commonly accepted as acute effects of radiation exposure, increases in prevalence of hypertension, and more health complaints. Excesses of bronchial asthma and health complaints were reported in children from the more exposed communities. Asthma prevalence in children potentially exposed in utero appears to be increased eightfold. Older adults from more exposed areas had more hypertension as assessed by history and measurements. These findings suggest the possible association of radiation exposure with several nonmalignant effects.
URL:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1519167/
Title: Chernobyl’s Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts and Recommendations to the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine
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Reference: The Chernobyl Forum: 2003–2005, Second revised version
Keywords: health effects, socio-economic impacts, environment, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
Abstract: The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 was the most severe in the history of the nuclear power industry, causing a huge release of radionuclides over large areas of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Now, 20 years later, UN Agencies and representatives of the three countries have reviewed the health, environmental and socio-economic consequences.
URL:http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Chernobyl/chernobyl.pdf
Title: Immigrants from Chernobyl-affected areas in Israel: the link between health and social adjustment
Author: L.I Remennick
Reference: Social Science & Medicine Volume 54, Issue 2, January 2002, Pages 309–317
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00030-2
Keywords: Israel; Chernobyl; Radiation exposure; immigrants (from Chernobyl-affected areas); Cumulative adversity, health effects, social adjustment
Abstract: The concept of cumulative adversity is a useful tool in the study of migration under chronic stress from past traumas. Drawing on this concept, the study explored long-term health and psychosocial effects of past radiation exposure among survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster who immigrated to Israel during the 1990s. Self-rated health status and indicators of social adjustment were compared in two groups of Russian immigrants: 180 persons from Chernobyl-affected areas and 200 immigrants from other areas of the former USSR. The semi-structured questionnaire was administered by Russian-speaking sociology students and analyzed by both quantitative and qualitative methods. In line with earlier research, both the somatic and mental health of Chernobyl survivors were significantly worse than in other immigrants of the same gender and age; a significant share of reported health problems were probably psychosomatic. Depression, sense of stigma and cancer-related anxiety were more prevalent in the study group. Immigrants from contaminated areas tended to use more health services (both conventional and alternative), but were less satisfied with their quality and providers’ attitude. The link between perceived health impairment and poorer social accommodation in the host country has been confirmed: Chernobyl-area immigrants experienced more severe occupational downgrading and were more disappointed with the results of their resettlement than other immigrants.
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953601000302
http://www.impact.arq.org/doc/kennisbank/1000011072-1.pdf
Author: Balonov M.I.
Reference: St. Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene named after Professor PV Ramzaev
ISSN: 1998-426X
Keywords: CHERNOBYL, DOSE, POPULATION, HEALTH EFFECTS, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT キーワード：放射線量、民衆、健康、環境への影響
Abstract:Radiological consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl NPP were recently revisited by the UN Chernobyl Forum (2003-2005) and UNSCEAR (2005-2008). For the first time environmental impacts were considered in detail, including radioactive contamination of terrestrial and aquatic environments, application and effectiveness of countermeasures and effects on biota. Updated dosimetric data were presented for more than half a million of emergency and recovery operation workers, about 100 million inhabitants of the three most affected countries, Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, and for 500 million inhabitants of other European countries. Several hundred of the emergency workers received high radiation doses; of whom 28 persons died in 1986 due to acute radiation sickness. Children at the time of the accident, who drank milk with high levels of radioactive iodine, received high doses to the thyroid. Since early 1990s there was the dramatic increase in thyroid cancer incidence among them. Also in 1990s there was some increase of leukaemia in most exposed workers. The UN Chernobyl Forum concluded that severe social and economic depression of the affected regions and associated psychological problems of the general public and the workers had become the most significant problem. The vast majority of the population need not live in fear of serious health consequences from the Chernobyl accident.
URL: http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=16516276
Author: Sednev V., Ovsyanik A.
Reference: Gazettes “Пожары и ЧС”,Академия ГПС МЧС России, 2010
ISSN: 2071-9116
Keywords: RADIATION-CONTAMINATED AREAS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFFECTED AREAS , THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFFECTED AREAS
Abstract:The article assesses the outcome of the work done to eliminate on the consequences of Chernobyl accident and its impact on human health, environment and socio-economic development of territories. A quarter-century on people still need clear understanding of health, environmental and socio-economic of the disaster in obtaining answers to outstanding questions
URL: http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=16223613
Title: Late health effects of radiation exposure: New statistical, epidemiological, and biological approaches *
Author: Jacob P, Stram DO. Institute of Radiation Protection , Helmholtz Zentrum München , Germany.
Reference: Int J Radiat Biol. 2013 Mar 4.
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Keywords: health effects,
Abstract: The 2012 Conference on Radiation and Health in Kennebunkport, Maine, USA, brought together epidemiologists, statisticians, basic scientists, and clinical scientists interested in the health effects of radiation exposure due to medical, diagnostic, occupational, and non-medical sources, to review the current status of epidemiologic and clinical research on radiation exposure in relation to risk of breast, thyroid cancer, and leukemia, cardiopulmonary events, and other late effects. Topics discussed included synergy between radiation exposure and genetic background; late effects of radiation therapy in childhood cancer survivors and several other medically exposed cohorts; leukemia risk seen in Russian and Chernobyl studies, and leukemia risk from computed tomography scans in childhood. Results and conclusions: This report summarizes the presentations at the meeting and discusses their significance in light of earlier studies and of other ongoing research.
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23402349
