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Risk Communication Strategies: Lessons Learned from Previous Disasters with a Focus on the Fukushima Radiation Accident

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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.

Summary

Yet, this discussion and lessons from prior events should assist decision makers with navigating difficult risk communication strategies in similar environmental health disasters.

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Ichiro Yamaguchi reports grants from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare.

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  1. Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Cannon Street, Suite 303, MSC 835, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA

    Erik R. Svendsen

  2. Department of Environmental Health, National Institute of Public Health, 2-3-6, Minami, Wako City, Saitama, 351-0197, Japan

    Ichiro Yamaguchi

  3. Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Okayama City, 700-8530, Japan

    Toshihide Tsuda

  4. Inst. de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Lab. de Tracadores, Bloco G, CCS, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-902, Brazil

    Jean Remy Davee Guimaraes

  5. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Ullerakersvagen 40, SE-751 85, Uppsala, Sweden

    Martin Tondel

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Svendsen, E.R., Yamaguchi, I., Tsuda, T. et al. Risk Communication Strategies: Lessons Learned from Previous Disasters with a Focus on the Fukushima Radiation Accident. Curr Envir Health Rpt 3, 348–359 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-016-0111-2

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