Social and psychological factors in vital activity of the personality on environmentally-unfriendly territories: Chernobyl trace

Title: Social and psychological factors in vital activity of the personality on environmentally-unfriendly territories: Chernobyl trace

Author: Hashenko, Nadezhda Nikolayevna

Reference: Moscow, 2005

Keywords: social factors, psychological factors, vital activity, quality of life, consciousness of the individual, permanent residence, contaminated sites

Abstract: The purpose of the study – to identify the socio-psychological factors of vital activity of the individual in terms of permanent residence in the contaminated areas.

URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/sotsialno-psikhologicheskie-faktory-zhiznedeyatelnosti-lichnosti-na-ekologicheski-neblagopri

Cancer incidence in Ukraine after the Chernobyl accident

Title: Cancer incidence in Ukraine after the Chernobyl accident

Author: Prysyazhnyuk, Anatoly Ye. / Gulak, Ludmila O. / Gristchenko, Vladimir G. / Fedorenko, Zoya P.

Reference: International Congress Series, 1234, p.281-291, May 2002

doi: 10.1016/S0531-5131(01)00617-3

Keywords: Cancer incidence rate; Standardized incidence ratio; Dose of radiation; Contaminated area ; Emergency worker; Evacuee  ; Population

Abstract: We analyzed the temporal trend in cancer incidence rate in different groups of Ukrainian population affected by the Chernobyl accident using the data obtained from the following two main information sources: (1) local cancer registry, which was established in 1987 and covers 150,000 population in the most radio-contaminated areas close to Chernobyl; and (2) state registry of people affected by the Chernobyl accident….

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531513101006173

Microorganisms associated with feathers of barn swallows in radioactively contaminated areas around chernobyl.

• Title: Microorganisms associated with feathers of barn swallows in radioactively contaminated areas around chernobyl.

Author: Czirják, Gábor Arpád / Møller, Anders Pape / Mousseau, Timothy A / Heeb, Philipp

Reference: Microbial ecology, 60 (2), p.373-380, Aug 2010

doi: 10.1007/s00248-010-9716-4

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Abstract: The Chernobyl catastrophe provides a rare opportunity to study the ecological and evolutionary consequences of low-level, environmental radiation on living organisms. Despite some recent studies about negative effects of environmental radiation on macroorganisms, there is little knowledge about the effect of radioactive contamination on diversity and abundance of microorganisms. We examined abundance patterns of total cultivable bacteria and fungi and the abundance of feather-degrading bacterial subset present on feathers of barn swallows (Hirundo rustica), a colonial migratory passerine, around Chernobyl in relation to levels of ground level environmental radiation.

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20640571?dopt=Abstract