The Basic Data for Residents Aged 15 Years or Younger Who Received a Comprehensive Health Check in 2011-2012 as a Part of the Fukushima Health Management Survey After the Great East Japan Earthquake

Kawasaki, Yukihiko; Yasumura, Seiji; Ohira, Tetsuya; Satoh, Hiroaki; Suzuki, Hitoshi; Sakai, Akira; Ohtsuru, Akira; Takahashi, Atsushi; Ozasa, Kotaro; Kobashi, Gén; Kamiya, Kenji; Yamashita, Shunichi; Abe, Masafumi

doi:10.5387/fms.2015-13

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“…The major categories of this impact are (1) obesity, (2) sedentary behaviour, and (3) psychological distress. Among children and adolescents after the Great East Japan Earthquake, there are the previous studies by Kawasaki et al ( 2020 ), Ohira et al ( 2019 ), Kuniyoshi et al ( 2019 ), Takahashi and Tsubokura ( 2018 ), Yokomichi et al ( 2018 ), Moriyama et al ( 2018 ), Isojima et al ( 2017 ), Kikuya et al ( 2017 ), Zheng et al ( 2017 ), Yokomichi et al ( 2016 ), Kawasaki et al ( 2015 ) and Kawasaki et al ( 2014 ) on obesity. And there are previous studies on the sedentary behavior by Goodwin et al ( 2020 ), Itagaki et al ( 2017 ) and Okazaki et al ( 2015 ).…”

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Supporting adolescents’ mental health during COVID-19 by utilising lessons from the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Okuyama

Izumi

Funakoshi

et al. 2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Historical data can determine how adolescents recover from difficult situations such as the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This study analysed 3 years of data obtained from high-school students who had been affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and consequently evidenced the importance of increasing resilience among affected adolescents. This involved identifying factors contributing to resilience through a model that assessed for each tsunami disaster. This model was determined by assessing the correlation between survivors’ resilience scores and their measured psychological and lifestyle scores. This approach showed that, in all tsunami damage models, resilience was most affected by the depressed emotions. Thus, our approach suggests that interventions for improving the depressed mood may improve resilience in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Supporting adolescents’ mental health during COVID-19 by utilising lessons from the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Okuyama

Izumi

Funakoshi

et al. 2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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“…The main objectives are to assess the examinees' health conditions and achieve early diagnoses and treatment of lifestyle and/or other illnesses. In summary, the 2011 Comprehensive Health Check, which comprises around 70 000 examinations, has clarified the general health conditions of evacuees from the government-designated evacuation zone after the Great East Japan Disaster [48,49]. Obesity and hyperlipidaemia exist, even at young ages, and are increased in comparison with the previous years' data on Fukushima Prefecture in adults of both genders.…”

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Comprehensive Health Risk Management after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident

Ohto¹,

Abe²,

Tanigawa³

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Clinical Oncology

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Five years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident on 11 March 2011. Countermeasures aimed at human protection during the emergency period, including evacuation, sheltering and control of the food chain were implemented in a timely manner by the Japanese Government. However, there is an apparent need for improvement, especially in the areas of nuclear safety and protection, and also in the management of radiation health risk during and even after the accident. Continuous monitoring and characterisation of the levels of radioactivity in the environment and foods in Fukushima are now essential for obtaining informed consent to the decisions on living in the radio-contaminated areas and also on returning back to the evacuated areas once re-entry is allowed; it is also important to carry out a realistic assessment of the radiation doses on the basis of measurements. Until now, various types of radiation health risk management projects and research have been implemented in Fukushima, among which the Fukushima Health Management Survey is the largest health monitoring project. It includes the Basic Survey for the estimation of external radiation doses received during the first 4 months after the accident and four detailed surveys: thyroid ultrasound examination, comprehensive health check-up, mental health and lifestyle survey, and survey on pregnant women and nursing mothers, with the aim to prospectively take care of the health of all the residents of Fukushima Prefecture for a long time. In particular, among evacuees of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident, concern about radiation risk is associated with psychological stresses. Here, ongoing health risk management will be reviewed, focusing on the difficult challenge of post-disaster recovery and resilience in Fukushima.

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“…In this study, we reviewed the results of longitudinal trends of lifestyle-related diseases except for cancer and their risk factors among residents in the evacuation area based on the CHC of the FHMS and discussed what measures can be taken in the future to prevent lifestyle-related diseases among residents in the evacuation area. Although the CHC investigated all age groups, 10 , 11 this review summarizes the results of the survey for participants aged 40 years or older and considers the results for lifestyle-related diseases in comparison with data on health check-ups before the earthquake. We believe that the results of this survey will be useful for the health management of evacuees after future disasters that might occur in Japan and other parts of the world.…”

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Trends in Lifestyle-related Diseases and Their Risk Factors After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident: Results of the Comprehensive Health Check in the Fukushima Health Management Survey

Ohira

Nakano

Okazaki

et al. 2022

Journal of Epidemiology

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Residents were forced to evacuate owing to the radiation released after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) accident following the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11/03/2021; thus, their lifestyles drastically changed. The Comprehensive Health Check (CHC) of the Fukushima Health Management Survey (FHMS) was performed to evaluate health statuses and prevent lifestyle-related diseases in evacuation area residents. The first part of the CHC survey is a retrospective analysis of pre- and post-disaster data on health check-ups of evacuation area residents. The second part is a cross-sectional, prospective analysis of post-disaster (fiscal year (FY) 2011–2017) data on health check-ups. Subjects were men and women living in 13 municipalities in areas surrounding the NPP in Fukushima Prefecture. Post-disaster (FY 2011–2012) overweight, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, liver dysfunction, hyperuricemia, polycythemia and atrial fibrillation cases increased from the pre-disaster (FY 2008–2010) levels. This tendency was strongest among residents who were forced to evacuate. Proportion of overweight people remained unchanged, the prevalence of liver dysfunction decreased and the proportion of people with treated hypertension and dyslipidemia increased during FY 2011–2017. Meanwhile, the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and mean levels of HbA1c increased. Furthermore, Evacuees showed higher risks of diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, chronic kidney diseases and liver dysfunction than non-evacuees. Therefore, residents in the evacuation area, especially evacuees, are at high risk of developing lifestyle-related diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases; therefore, it is necessary to observe health statuses and implement measures to prevent lifestyle-related diseases.

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The Basic Data for Residents Aged 15 Years or Younger Who Received a Comprehensive Health Check in 2011-2012 as a Part of the Fukushima Health Management Survey After the Great East Japan Earthquake

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Supporting adolescents’ mental health during COVID-19 by utilising lessons from the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Supporting adolescents’ mental health during COVID-19 by utilising lessons from the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Comprehensive Health Risk Management after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident

Trends in Lifestyle-related Diseases and Their Risk Factors After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident: Results of the Comprehensive Health Check in the Fukushima Health Management Survey

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