Radiation Disaster Medicine
Perspective from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
by Koichi Tanigawa and Rethy Kieth Chhem
Pages: 136
Publisher:
Edition: 1st., 2014
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-319-02215-4
Description
Various roles of physicians in the early responses to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident were described and reviewed according to the competency-based framework of CanMEDS. It was found that most physicians from various medical specialties including radiation disaster medicine were unprepared to deal with a combination of disasters (earthquake and tsunami) compounded by a technological disaster due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant meltdown. Challenges and lessons learned in the wake of the Fukushima accident were also examined, whereby the weakest spot that has been identified by physicians on the front line is the ability to communicate effectively with various publics about the risk of radiation on human health.
Contents
1 Physicians’ Early Response to the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant Accident: Challenges
and Lessons Learned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Rethy Kieth Chhem
2 General Considerations in Radiation Disaster Medicine. . . . . . . . . . 15
Koichi Tanigawa
3 Medical Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Koichi Tanigawa and Arifumi Hasegawa
4 Disaster Behavioral Health: Psychological Effects
of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Masaharu Maeda and Misari Oe
5 Management Perspective: Structure of Radiation Emergency
Response in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Takako Tominaga, Misao Hachiya, and Makoto Akashi
6 Management Perspective: Structure of Radiation Emergency
Response in International Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Azura Z. Aziz and Pisith Phlong
7 Radiation Disaster Medicine Curriculum Revisited
in a Post- Fukushima Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Rethy Kieth Chhem, Azura Z. Aziz, and Gregory K. Clancey
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Perspective from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
by Koichi Tanigawa and Rethy Kieth Chhem
Pages: 136
Publisher:
Edition: 1st., 2014
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-319-02215-4
Description
Various roles of physicians in the early responses to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident were described and reviewed according to the competency-based framework of CanMEDS. It was found that most physicians from various medical specialties including radiation disaster medicine were unprepared to deal with a combination of disasters (earthquake and tsunami) compounded by a technological disaster due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant meltdown. Challenges and lessons learned in the wake of the Fukushima accident were also examined, whereby the weakest spot that has been identified by physicians on the front line is the ability to communicate effectively with various publics about the risk of radiation on human health.
Contents
1 Physicians’ Early Response to the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant Accident: Challenges
and Lessons Learned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Rethy Kieth Chhem
2 General Considerations in Radiation Disaster Medicine. . . . . . . . . . 15
Koichi Tanigawa
3 Medical Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Koichi Tanigawa and Arifumi Hasegawa
4 Disaster Behavioral Health: Psychological Effects
of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Masaharu Maeda and Misari Oe
5 Management Perspective: Structure of Radiation Emergency
Response in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Takako Tominaga, Misao Hachiya, and Makoto Akashi
6 Management Perspective: Structure of Radiation Emergency
Response in International Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Azura Z. Aziz and Pisith Phlong
7 Radiation Disaster Medicine Curriculum Revisited
in a Post- Fukushima Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Rethy Kieth Chhem, Azura Z. Aziz, and Gregory K. Clancey
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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