Parenting in Fukushima City in the post‐disaster period: short‐term strategies and long‐term perspectives

Goto, Aya; Reich, Michael R.; Suzuki, Yuriko; Tsutomi, Hiroshi; Watanabe, Eiko; Yasumura, Seiji

doi:10.1111/disa.12070

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“…Some personal dosimeters (e.g., D‐Shuttle) provided real‐time readouts of doses that could be connected to global positioning systems (GPS), allowing people to understand environmental factors and the condition of different locations that might influence their personal radiation dose (Naito et al ). Other successful empowerment projects included the use of BabyScan, a whole body portable radiation counter for small children (Hayano et al ), medical support for mothers of young children (Goto et al ), and a wide range of school monitoring projects (Adachi et al ). Many initiatives provided the opportunity for dialogue between experts and residents of affected communities and demonstrated that success required sufficient resources to provide such expert support as training of local public health experts.…”

Section: Control Dignity and Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other successful empowerment projects included the use of BabyScan, a whole body portable radiation counter for small children (Hayano et al 2014), medical support for mothers of young children (Goto et al 2014), and a wide range of school monitoring projects (Adachi et al 2015). Many initiatives provided the opportunity for dialogue between experts and residents of affected communities and demonstrated that success required sufficient resources to provide such expert support as training of local public health experts.…”

Section: Control Dignity and Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Societal and ethical aspects of the Fukushima accident

Oughton

2016

Integr Environ Assess Manag

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The Fukushima Nuclear Power Station accident in Japan in 2011 was a poignant reminder that radioactive contamination of the environment has consequences that encompass far more than health risks from exposure to radiation. Both the accident and remediation measures have resulted in serious societal impacts and raise questions about the ethical aspects of risk management. This article presents a brief review of some of these issues and compares similarities and differences with the lessons learned from the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident in Ukraine. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2016;12:651-653. © 2016 SETAC.

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Section: Control Dignity and Autonomymentioning

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Section: Control Dignity and Autonomymentioning

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Societal and ethical aspects of the Fukushima accident

Oughton

2016

Integr Environ Assess Manag

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“…Directly related to mental health is the question of how non-radiation factors, specifically lifestyle and behavioural factors, may alter health of the population in the long-term. There is information that continued fear related to radiation exposure may lead parents and teachers to keep children indoors and that many people continue to avoid locally grown fruits and vegetables, favouring instead food (even if processed) produced elsewhere [ 18 , 19 ]. Many of those evacuated, due to elevated radiation levels or the devastation of the tsunami and earthquake, transitioned from farming communities to urban settings.…”

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Meeting report: suggestions for studies on future health risks following the Fukushima accident

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In October 2013, the Radiation Medical Science Center of the Fukushima Medical University and the Section of Environment and Radiation of the International Agency for Research on Cancer held a joint workshop in Fukushima, Japan to discuss opportunities and challenges for long-term studies of the health effects following the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident. This report describes four key areas of discussion -- thyroid screening, dosimetry, mental health, and non-radiation risk factors -- and summarizes recommendations resulting from the workshop. Four recommendations given at the workshop were to: 1) build-up a population-based cancer registry for long-term monitoring of the cancer burden in the prefecture; 2) enable future linkage of data from the various independent activities, particularly those related to dose reconstruction and health status ascertainment; 3) establish long-term observational studies with repeated measurements of lifestyle and behavioural factors to disentangle radiation and non-radiation factors; and 4) implement primary prevention strategies targeted for populations affected by natural disasters, including measures to better understand and address health risk concerns in the affected population. The workshop concluded that coordinated data collection between researchers from different institutes and disciplines can both reduce the burden on the population and facilitate efforts to examine the inter-relationships between the many factors at play.

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“…Following exposure of a population to radiation, concern about the risk of radiation-induced cancer can be a major source of anxiety, 1 , 2 particularly for parents concerned about the future health of their children. 3 Despite the obvious importance of preventing accidental radiation exposure and reducing exposure levels, it is not currently known whether there is a practical way to specifically mitigate radiation-induced cancer risk once exposure has occurred.…”

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A Multi-stage Carcinogenesis Model to Investigate Caloric Restriction as a Potential Tool for Post-irradiation Mitigation of Cancer Risk

Tani¹,

Blyth²,

Shang³

et al. 2016

J Cancer Prev

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The risk of radiation-induced cancer adds to anxiety in low-dose exposed populations. Safe and effective lifestyle changes which can help mitigate excess cancer risk might provide exposed individuals the opportunity to pro-actively reduce their cancer risk, and improve mental health and well-being. Here, we applied a mathematical multi-stage carcinogenesis model to the mouse lifespan data using adult-onset caloric restriction following irradiation in early life. We re-evaluated autopsy records with a veterinary pathologist to determine which tumors were the probable causes of death in order to calculate age-specific mortality. The model revealed that in both irradiated and unirradiated mice, caloric restriction reduced the age-specific mortality of all solid tumors and hepatocellular carcinomas across most of the lifespan, with the mortality rate dependent more on age owing to an increase in the number of predicted rate-limiting steps. Conversely, irradiation did not significantly alter the number of steps, but did increase the overall transition rate between the steps. We show that the extent of the protective effect of caloric restriction is independent of the induction of cancer from radiation exposure, and discuss future avenues of research to explore the utility of caloric restriction as an example of a potential post-irradiation mitigation strategy.

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Parenting in Fukushima City in the post‐disaster period: short‐term strategies and long‐term perspectives

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Societal and ethical aspects of the Fukushima accident

Societal and ethical aspects of the Fukushima accident

Meeting report: suggestions for studies on future health risks following the Fukushima accident

A Multi-stage Carcinogenesis Model to Investigate Caloric Restriction as a Potential Tool for Post-irradiation Mitigation of Cancer Risk

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