| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Worsening of mental health of the residents of the area affected by Fukushima nuclear power plant was predictable due to contradicting information on radiation health effects and distrust in public administration and specialists. In this study a number of interviews and discussions are conducted with health/research/population support institutions in Belarus and Ukraine which experienced aftermath of the Chernobyl catastrophe, the world's worst nuclear accident, in 1986, and collected information and materials were then analysed. It became clear that in the affected countries specialists recognize larger significance of the social psychological stress in comparison with radiation health effects and importance of popularizing so-called "radiation culture" as a guideline for protecting population with correct knowledge in radiation polluted areas and for maintaining good mental health by avoiding to fall into a status of helplessness such as victim syndrome.
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