Keynote address at the International Conference 25 Years After the Chernobyl Accident: Safety for the Future

Title: Keynote address at the International Conference 25 Years After the Chernobyl Accident: Safety for the Future

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Reference: WHO Speeches and presentations :The International Conference 25 Years After the Chernobyl Accident

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Abstract: …Indeed, the uncertainty surrounding the health effects has contributed to increase the alarm in the affected communities as well as the sense of hopelessness towards a threat to health that was perceived as uncontrollable, threatening present and future generations. In many cases, Chernobyl has become the “explanation” for several problems, indeed attributable to broad public health causes and aggravated by the difficult political, economic and social transition the affected countries have experienced in recent years…. In summary, in the most severely affected countries, about 6000 people who were children and adolescents in April 1986 have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer so far. New thyroid cancer cases are expected in the coming decades among those exposed in 1986, although the magnitude of the risks and the number of future cases are difficult to quantify….

URL: http://www.euro.who.int/en/who-we-are/regional-director/speeches-and-presentations-by-year/2011/keynote-address-at-the-international-conference-25-years-after-the-chernobyl-accident-safety-for-the-future

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