Public Health Preparedness for and Response to Nuclear Disasters: An Editorial

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Nov 8;15(11):2489. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15112489.

Shuhei Nomura^{1

2}, Michio Murakami^{3

4}

¹ Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan. s-nomura@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK. s-nomura@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
³ Department of Health Risk Communication, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan. michio@fmu.ac.jp.
⁴ Radiation Medical Science Center for the Fukushima Health Management Survey, Fukushima Medical University, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan. michio@fmu.ac.jp.

Abstract

In 2011, resilience to nuclear disasters emerged as a core public health challenge. [...].