BLOCKING OF A THYROID AT THE NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS: THE “COST-BENEFIT” ANALYSIS BY RESULTS OF CHERNOBYL FAILURE.

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.

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