Title: BLOCKING OF A THYROID AT THE NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS: THE “COST-BENEFIT” ANALYSIS BY RESULTS OF CHERNOBYL FAILURE.
Author: Y. E. Kenigsberg, Y. E. Kryuk, Y. E. Demidchik
Reference: ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ ВЕСТНИК, no. 2, 2007
Keywords: iodine prophylaxis, the economic costs
Abstract: Using of an analytical method “cost – benefit” comparison of expenses for carrying out of large-scale iodine preventive prophylactic and real expenses with reference to children and the adolescences who lived in 1986 in territory of Belarus and have a thyroid cancer as a result of Chernobyl accident was done. The comparison was carried out for 2566 thyroid cancer cases which realized during from 1990 to 2005. The calculation was preformed in recalculation on 100 000 people. It is received, that duly carrying out of large-scale iodine preventive prophylactic among children and the adolescences could give economic benefit nearby 400 000 $ per 100 thousand person. Results evidently testify unconditional economic correctness and necessity of carrying out of large-scale iodine preventive prophylactic in case of atomic power station accidents.
URL: http://www.belmapo.by/downloads/rector/blokirav_shetovidnoj_zhelezi.doc
Reference: Здоровья Украины (Health in Ukraine) 2006 No.14-1
Keywords: surgery, experience, clinic
Abstract: Thyroid surgery in Ukraine continues to develop as an independent branch of clinical endocrinology. Therapeutic and surgical treatment for patients with thyroid disease should be carried out in specialized clinics, equipped with modern equipment and with a vast clinical experience. Formation of academic school of surgeons and endocrinologists, with years of experience, will improve skills and experience of the specialists, reducing the risk of developing complications in thyroid surgery.
URL: http://health-ua.com/articles/1352.html
Author: V.V. Evseyenko
Reference: Журнал «Медицинские новости» (Medical news) 2006. – №3.
Keywords: Republican Scientific and Practical Centre of Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology, International Federation of the Red Cross
Abstract: Elimination of health effects of the Chernobyl disaster requires considerable effort on the part of the country, as a whole, as well as the scientific and practical institutions abroad.
Nearly 20 years after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the ecological situation in the country and the need to address health effects of long-term disaster require dynamic monitoring of the state of health in large numbers of people. In this regard, has been developed a long-term cooperation for the sake of a contribution to the project “Screening of the affected population in the international Chernobyl Program of the Red Cross.” Its plan formed diagnostic support outreach teams, which, in 2005, examined 15,754 people, including 1,070 children. Analysis of the diagnostic work-site teams, in recent years, has shown high efficiency of their activities, particularly in diagnosis of thyroid disease, including thyroid cancer.
URL: http://www.mednovosti.by/journal.aspx?article=489
Title: Radiation doses to the thyroid of the Russian population as a result of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Author: Stepanenko V.F., Tsyb A.F., Gavrilin YU.I., Hrusch V.T., Shinkarev S.M., Skvortsov V.G., Kondrashov A.E., Yaskova E.K., Ivannikov A.I., Parshkov E.M., Shahtarin V.V., Moskovko L.I., Petin D.V., Chebotareva I.V., Proshin A.D., Pozhko YU.N., Dorohov V.V., Rivkind N.B., Kvitko B.I., Kuzmin P.S., Leshakov S.YU., Omelchenko V.N.
Reference: Radiation and Lisk 1996 No.7
Keywords: Radiation doses
Abstract: The paper discusses a methodological approach developed for reconstruction of thyroid doses from internal exposure to 131I and prospects of future works in this field. Estimated levels of thyroid irradiation for the population of Russia after the accident are presented. These results have been obtained based on the retrospective analysis using the developed approach. Also, long-term health consequences of thyroid irradiation in the population of Russia have been predicted. Retrospective estimates have been made for individual thyroid doses for children and adolescents with the diagnosis of thyroid cancer living on the contaminated areas.
URL: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/dozy-oblucheniya-schitovidnoy-zhelezy-naseleniya-rossii-v-rezultate-avarii-na-chernobylskoy-aes-retrospektivnyy-analiz
Title: Chernobyl and public health
Author: Baverstock K.
Reference: Journal:”Radiation and lisk” 1999 No.11
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URL: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/chernobyl-i-zdorovie-naseleniya
Title: Photo Album “Pripyat”
Reference: In the Ukrainian and Russian languages. 1976, 1986
Keywords: photography, memory, Pripyat
Abstract:This photo album tells us about one of the youngest cities in Ukraine – Pripyat that was established thanks to the construction of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
URL: http://pripyat-city.ru/books/57-fotoalbom.html
http://pripyat-city.ru/books/174-pripyat-fotoalbom-1976.html
Title: Radiation condition and its social and psychological aspects
Author: V.P.Antonov
Reference: Publication of “Knowledge” Society [общество “Знание”] of the Ukrainian SSR, 1987
Keywords: radiation, social aspect, psychological aspect, liquidation
Abstract: As a result of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant a situation was developed that was unique in its scale and also in its historical experience, to which psychologically unprepared were not only the general public but also many experts, scientists, leaders.
URL: http://pripyat-city.ru/books/102-radiacionnaya-obstanovka.html
Title: The effects of the Chernobyl explosion on induced abortion in Italy
Author: Spinelli A, Osborn JF
Reference: Biomed Pharmacother. 1991;45(6):243–247
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0753-3322(91)90024-N
Keywords: Chernobyl, induced abortion, Italy
Abstract: Four regression models have been fitted to data of the monthly number of induced abortions in Italy between January 1984 and April 1986, in order to predict the number which would have occurred in the 5 months following the Chernobyl explosion. In model I the average number of abortions per day in each month was the dependent variable and calendar months, a linear time trend and previous month’s value were the independent variables. Model II included a quadratic time trend term in addition to the independent variables used in model I. Models III and IV were like models I and II except that the dependent variable was the average number of abortions per working day in each month and the effect of the previous month’s value was omitted. The 4 models all implied that an excess number of abortions were performed in the 5 months following the Chernobyl accident. The mean daily excess was estimated to be 28 and 52 per day for models I and II and the mean excess per working day was estimated to be 20 and 30 by models III and IV, respectively. Clearly the estimated magnitude of the excess depends on whether the quadratic time trend is included among the explanatory variables, but these results imply that the excess is unlikely to be merely due to chance.
URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/075333229190024N
Title: Perinatal mortality in Bavaria, Germany, after the Chernobyl reactor accident
Author: Grosche B, Irl C, Schoetzau A, van Santen E.
Reference: Radiat Environ Biophys. 1997 Jun;36(2):129–136
DOI: 10.1007/s004110050064
Keywords: perinatal mortality, Germany
Abstract: As has been shown by the authors of a paper recently published in this journal, a deviation from a long-term trend in perinatal mortality within the former Federal Republic of Germany occurred in 1987, i.e. 1 year following the Chernobyl disaster. It is the aim of this study to make a comparison between the areas of the state Bavaria. Germany, with different fallout levels as well as between the observed and expected numbers of perinatal deaths relating to these areas. The expected numbers of perinatal deaths, defined as external standard, were derived from the remainder of the former FRG. Testing an a priori formulated hypothesis revealed no differences in the temporal development of perinatal mortality between the areas with different fallout levels and subsequent exposure. Including May 1986 into the analysis revealed a significant increase during the first 3 months after the accident, which is due to an excess in May alone. Since no elevated radiation risks for the last days in utero are known, the additional Chernobyl radiation exposure is not plausible as a causative agent. Further analyses on stillbirths showed an increase in Southern Bavaria during the first 2 years following the accident. Later on, the rates were comparable to the expected values again.
URL:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs004110050064
Title: Perinatal mortality in Germany following the Chernobyl accident
Author: Körblein A, Küchenhoff H.
Reference: Radiat Environ Biophys. 1997 Feb;36(1):3–7
Keywords: perinatal mortality, Germany
Abstract: Perinatal mortality in Germany was investigated with respect to a possible relationship to the nuclear accident in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986. Using annual data of perinatal mortality, a trend analysis based on an appropriately chosen statistical model was performed which showed a significant increase in 1987. In addition, we calculated the cesium concentration in women’s bodies using data of the cesium concentration in milk. We found two peaks of cesium concentration that were associated with the observed two peaks of monthly perinatal mortality data with a delay of 7 months.
URL:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9128892
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