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Interventions in Civilian Nuclear Emergencies: An Operational Plan for Population and Injured Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2017

Armando Muzzi ,
Ernesto Strambi  and
Giorgio Trenta
Armando Muzzi
Affiliation:
National Research Committee of the “Energia Nucleare e delle Energie Alternative (ENEA),” Viale Regina Margherita 125, Rome, Italy 00198
Ernesto Strambi
Affiliation:
National Research Committee of the “Energia Nucleare e delle Energie Alternative (ENEA),” Viale Regina Margherita 125, Rome, Italy 00198
Giorgio Trenta
Affiliation:
National Research Committee of the “Energia Nucleare e delle Energie Alternative (ENEA),” Viale Regina Margherita 125, Rome, Italy 00198
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Abstract

The authors describe Italian public health intervention planning for civil nuclear emergencies. With the exception of a few special aspects of prophylaxis and therapy, public health intervention in the case of nuclear emergencies are basically the same as those planned for “conventional emergencies,” however, a key role in nuclear emergencies could be played by the psychological aspect. Two different situations must be considered: 1) nuclear accidents involving workers only; and 2) nuclear accidents involving population as well. Differences in public health intervention required to address these two situations are discussed, both in terms of public health personnel involved, and of public health means and structures that should be available.

Type
Section Five—Disaster Events
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , Fall 1985 , pp. 330 - 332
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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