People generally wish to return home after being evacuated due to disaster situations. Evacuation orders have now been lifted in the Fukushima region following the nuclear accident in 2011, and the Japanese government is promoting a return policy. However, many residents who wish to return home remain unable to and continue living in evacuation sites or other areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Evacuation, owing to a disaster, impacts various aspects of an individual's life, including health status. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of obesity among residents of Katsurao Village, Fukushima Prefecture, after the evacuation order due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 was lifted in 2016 and to compare the prevalence of obesity by place of residence (inside or outside the village).
Methods: The number of examinees, sex, age, place of residence, body mass index (BMI), exercise habits, smoking habits, drinking habits, and dietary status were extracted from the results of health checkups since 2016.
Geriatrics (Basel)
September 2023
Aim: Estimating the risk of developing ischemic stroke (IS) may assist health professionals in motivating individuals to modify their risk behavior.
Methods: A predictive model was derived from 178,186 participants from Fukushima Health Database, aged 40-74 years, who attended the health checkup in 2014 and completed at least one annual health checkup by 2018 (Cohort I). Cox proportional hazard regression model was used to build a 4-year prediction model, thus the risk scores were based on the regression coefficients.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
February 2023
Many people wish to return to where they used to live after evacuation due to disaster. After the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, many residents were forced to evacuate due to concerns about radiation. Subsequently, the evacuation order was lifted, and the government promoted a return policy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFollowing the accident at Tokyo Electric Power's Dai'ichi Reactor, Fukushima Prefecture has conducted tests to detect the presence of radioactive materials in the breast milk of mothers applying for such tests. Of 467 mothers who applied for testing between June 2012 and March 2013, it was found that (134)Cs and (137)Cs were absent from all cases. The passage of time since the accident has seen a decrease in the number of mothers applying for the tests.
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