TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk Communication Strategies
T2 - Lessons Learned from Previous Disasters with a Focus on the Fukushima Radiation Accident
AU - Svendsen, Erik R.
AU - Yamaguchi, Ichiro
AU - Tsuda, Toshihide
AU - Guimaraes, Jean Remy Davee
AU - Tondel, Martin
N1 - Funding Information:
Ichiro Yamaguchi reports grants from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW: It has been difficult to both mitigate the health consequences and effectively provide health risk information to the public affected by the Fukushima radiological disaster. Often, there are contrasting public health ethics within these activities which complicate risk communication. Although no risk communication strategy is perfect in such disasters, the ethical principles of risk communication provide good practical guidance.FINDINGS: These discussions will be made in the context of similar lessons learned after radiation exposures in Goiania, Brazil, in 1987; the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, Ukraine, in 1986; and the attack at the World Trade Center, New York, USA, in 2001. Neither of the two strategies is perfect nor fatally flawed. Yet, this discussion and lessons from prior events should assist decision makers with navigating difficult risk communication strategies in similar environmental health disasters.
AB - PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW: It has been difficult to both mitigate the health consequences and effectively provide health risk information to the public affected by the Fukushima radiological disaster. Often, there are contrasting public health ethics within these activities which complicate risk communication. Although no risk communication strategy is perfect in such disasters, the ethical principles of risk communication provide good practical guidance.FINDINGS: These discussions will be made in the context of similar lessons learned after radiation exposures in Goiania, Brazil, in 1987; the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, Ukraine, in 1986; and the attack at the World Trade Center, New York, USA, in 2001. Neither of the two strategies is perfect nor fatally flawed. Yet, this discussion and lessons from prior events should assist decision makers with navigating difficult risk communication strategies in similar environmental health disasters.
KW - Ethics
KW - Fukushima accident
KW - Management
KW - Radiation
KW - Risk communication
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U2 - 10.1007/s40572-016-0111-2
DO - 10.1007/s40572-016-0111-2
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27796965
AN - SCOPUS:85042463371
SN - 2196-5412
VL - 3
SP - 348
EP - 359
JO - Current environmental health reports
JF - Current environmental health reports
IS - 4
ER -
