TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tapia,José A.
TI  - Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR
T2  - De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences ,
SN  - 9783110761733
AV  - RA569 .T37 2022
U1  - 363.17/99094777 23/eng/20221220
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Disaster victims
KW  - Mortality
KW  - Gesundheitsrisiko
KW  - Nuklearenergie
KW  - Tschernobyl
KW  - UdSSR
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Chernobyl
KW  - Eastern Europe
KW  - Mortality crisis
KW  - Nuclear energy
KW  - USSR
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; About the author --; Preface --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Chapter 1 Introduction --; Chapter 2 Chernobyl — The nuclear disaster --; Chapter 3 Chernobyl and the timing of the mortality crisis --; Chapter 4 Birth rates and sex ratios after Chernobyl --; Chapter 5 Soviet and post-Soviet cover-up --; Chapter 6 Effects of the radioactive fallout — From early evaluations to the Chernobyl Forum --; Chapter 7 Health effects of ionizing radiation — How knowledge grew out of secrecy --; Chapter 8 Effects of low-dose radiation — The LNT model — Hormesis --; Chapter 9 Conflicting results of investigations on exposures to low-dose ionizing radiation --; Chapter 10 Thyroid cancer caused by the Chernobyl fallout --; Chapter 11 Post-Chernobyl non-thyroid malignancies and other health effects --; Chapter 12 Mortality effects of fallout from nuclear tests --; Chapter 13 Conclusion --; Appendix A Units for measurement of ionizing radiation --; Appendix B Gender issues --; Appendix C Data Tables --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality crisis which affected Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR at the time of the transition to a market economy was arguably the major peacetime health crisis of recent decades. Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Old USSR discusses the importance of that crisis, surprisingly underplayed in the scientific literature, and presents evidence suggesting a potential role of the Chernobyl disaster among the causes contributing to it
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110761788
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110761788
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110761788/original
ER  -