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Health Effects of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

  • 1st Edition - April 30, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Kenji Kamiya, Hitoshi Ohto, Masaharu Maeda
  • Language: English

Health Effects of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster provides a multidisciplinary retrospective on the health consequences on the population the first decade after the Fukushima… Read more

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Description

Health Effects of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster provides a multidisciplinary retrospective on the health consequences on the population the first decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Sections 1 and 2 of the book begins with an introduction and an overview of the developments surrounding the Fukushima accident. Section 3 discusses topics such as the physical health impact of radiation exposure as well as diseases that resulted from long-term evacuation. Section 4 examines the psychological　factors and the social impact of the disaster and how their combined influence affected the physical and mental wellness of the population. The book concludes with Section 5 which covers the mitigation strategy for treatment and care of psychological health issues resulting from the disaster. The book contains expert contributions from those who have first-hand experience in the recovery efforts and are still actively researching the impact of the disaster. Health Effects of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster provides readers with a coherent, multi-dimensional narrative about the physical, psychosocial, and psychological aspects of the decade-long aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Key features

  • Provides information based on evidence obtained through scientific methods such as long-term epidemiological surveys and case studies
  • Examines the indirect health impact, especially psychosocial effects, caused by technological disasters like nuclear accidents
  • Includes contributions from experts in the field who participated in the recovery efforts and are currently researching the health impact of the Fukushima disaster

Readership

Health, public health, and mental health professionals; radiological and nuclear emergency preparedness and response community; disaster investigators and researchers

Table of contents

I. Introduction

II. Development of Fukushima disaster

III. Physical issues

1. Initial turmoil in emergency medical settings

2. Radiation dose after the disaster

3. Thyroid cancer and related issues

4. Radiological influence on pregnancy

5. Lifestyle related diseases caused by long-term evacuation

6. Health effects of A-bombing in 1945: lessons from epidemiological studies

IV. Psychosocial issues

7. Posttraumatic responses and related issues

8. Suicide-related issues among affected people

9. Alcohol-related issues among affected people

10. Psychological influence on affected children in Fukushima

11. Mental health issues among aged people

12. Mental health issues among people having thyroid tumor

13. Risk perception and related issues

14. Influence of different Media, producing stigma

15. Crisis and resilience of local communities

16. Psychosocial issues caused by Fukushima disaster: comparative perspective with Chernobyl accident

V. Mitigation of Psychological Health Issues

17. Mental health care for young mothers and their children

18. Telephone intervention

19. Community-based care in Kawauchi Village

20. Psychiatric treatments in clinical settings

21. Psychological care for TEPCO workers

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 6, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Kenji Kamiya

Dr. Kamiya graduated from Hiroshima University School of Medicine in 1977, where he also completed a PhD in Experimental Pathology in 1986. From 1982 to 1987, he held a research appointment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After joining Hiroshima University’s Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, he worked to advance radiation biology, radiation carcinogenesis, and radiation emergency medicine. In 1996, he became a Professor at Hiroshima University, and served as Director of the Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine from 2001 to 2005 and 2009 to 2013. He has served as Director of the Radiation Emergency Medicine Promotion Center since 2004 and Vice President of Hiroshima University since 2013. Following Fukushima’s 2011 nuclear accident, he was appointed as a Vice President of Fukushima Medical University, while serving concurrently as a radiation health risk management advisor to the Fukushima Prefectural Government, as well as working as an advisor to the Cabinet Secretariat’s Advisory Group on Nuclear Disasters. In 2016, he became Director of the Radiation Medical Science Center for the Fukushima Health Management Survey at Fukushima Medical University. In 2009, he received the Asian Association of Radiation Research Award, and was awarded the Prime Minister’s Commendation to Contributors for Disaster Prevention in 2012. In 2020, he received the Japanese Radiation Research Society’s JRRS Outstanding Contribution Award, among other awards. He served as President of the Japanese Radiation Research Society (2008-2011), Secretary General of the 15th Annual International Congress on Radiation Research (ICRR2015), and as a member of the Science Council of Japan and a chairman of the board for The Nuclear Regulation Authority’s Radiation Council.
Affiliations and expertise
Vice President, Hiroshima University (HU) and Fukushima Medical University (FMU), Japan

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Hitoshi Ohto

Professor Emeritus Ohto is General Vice President of Fukushima Medical University (FMU). He graduated from FMU (MD) in 1977 and finished PhD thesis of medicine in 1984 at the University of Tokyo. His research focuses chiefly on fetomaternal micro-transfusion and its consequences to mother and child, including transmission of pathogens and alloimmune responses. He has studied mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis viruses, and infantile and maternal microchimerism during and after pregnancy. He has contributed to world-wide transfusion safety initiatives, especially the prevention of transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease, which is uniformly fatal, by introducing universal irradiation of cellular transfusion components at FMU in 1989, first in the world. He guest edited a collection of articles with the theme “Disasters and Transfusion” in an international journal. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers in international top journals. He is currently serving in the Fukushima Health Management Survey as General Vice Director.
Affiliations and expertise
General Vice President, Fukushima Medical University (FMU), Fukushima, Japan

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Masaharu Maeda

Professor Maeda is Professor and Chair of the Department of Disaster Psychiatry at the Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine in Fukushima, Japan. Professor Maeda received his medical degree at Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan, and completed his residency training in psychiatry at Kurume University Hospital. He later returned to his alma mater in 1996 as Associate Professor, before assuming his current roles. Professor Maeda served as President of Japanese Society of Traumatic Stress Studies from 2009 to 2013. He has been actively involved in providing psychiatric examinations and organizing psychiatric intervention teams for survivors of several major disasters that have occurred in Japan, particularly man-made disasters. Professor Maeda’s current clinical and research interests lie in the widespread psychosocial effects resulting from the Fukushima nuclear accident. As Assistant Manager of the Fukushima Center for Disaster Mental Health, he is leading the Mental Health and Life Style Survey to facilitate the adequate care of resident who are at risk of developing mental health problems following the complicated nuclear accident.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Chair, Department of Disaster Psychiatry, Fukushima Medical University (FMU), School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

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