Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR
About this book
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.
- A combined discussion of Chernobyl & the mortality crisis of the transition
- An examination of the spikes in mortality in the late 1980s &1990s
- A review of the decreasingly controversial evidence on the harmful effects of low-dose ionizing radiation
Author / Editor information
José A. Tapia Granados, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Reviews
“That the Chernobyl disaster contributed decisively – though to an extent yet to be determined – to the public health crisis in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Bulgaria, is the key notion in this book. An intriguing hypothesis that is cogently argued and that has important implications for our future.”
Fernando J. García López, National Epidemiology Centre, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain
“This book poses that some unknown fraction of the mortality crisis in Eastern Europe could plausibly be due to radioactivity. Its value is in combining the different strands of the argument – including some that are not so well known – to support a hypothesis but not to claim that it is fully proved or disproved by the evidence.”
Edward L. Ionides, Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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About the author
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Preface
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Contents
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Abbreviations
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Chapter 1 Introduction
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Chapter 2 Chernobyl — The nuclear disaster
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Chapter 3 Chernobyl and the timing of the mortality crisis
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Chapter 4 Birth rates and sex ratios after Chernobyl
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Chapter 5 Soviet and post-Soviet cover-up
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Chapter 6 Effects of the radioactive fallout — From early evaluations to the Chernobyl Forum
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Chapter 7 Health effects of ionizing radiation — How knowledge grew out of secrecy
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Chapter 8 Effects of low-dose radiation — The LNT model — Hormesis
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Chapter 9 Conflicting results of investigations on exposures to low-dose ionizing radiation
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Chapter 10 Thyroid cancer caused by the Chernobyl fallout
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Chapter 11 Post-Chernobyl non-thyroid malignancies and other health effects
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Chapter 12 Mortality effects of fallout from nuclear tests
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Chapter 13 Conclusion
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Appendix A Units for measurement of ionizing radiation
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Appendix B Gender issues
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Appendix C Data Tables
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References
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Index
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