Claire Leppold

Need for Emergency Medical Functioning of Hospitals in Post-Nuclear Evacuation Areas

Yuki Shimada, Akihiko Ozaki, Masaharu Tsubokura, Kana Yamamoto, Claire Leppold, Arinobu Hori, Asaka Higuchi, Yuki Sonoda, Tomohiro Morita, Toyoaki Sawano, Tomoyoshi Oikawa

Journal article  |  2021  |  DISASTER MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS

Minimizing Isolation of the Elderly Following the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster

Izumi Yoshida, Tomohiro Morita, Takeaki Ishii, Claire Leppold, Masaharu Tsubokura

Journal article  |  2021  |  DISASTER MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS

Comparative risk assessment of non-communicable diseases by evacuation scenario- a retrospective study in the 7 years following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident

Shuhei Nomura, Michio Murakami, Akihiko Ozaki, Toyoaki Sawano, Claire Leppold, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Hiroaki Saito, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Masaharu Tsubokura

Journal article  |  2021  |  GLOBAL HEALTH ACTION

Background: As a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, many residents evacuated and were exposed to change..

Risk, uncertainty and medical practice: changes in the medical professions following disaster

Sudeepa Abeysinghe, Claire Leppold, Akihiko Ozaki, Mariko Morita

Journal article  |  2020  |  Evidence and Policy: a journal of research, debate and practice

Risk and uncertainty can destabilise and reconstruct the relationships between medicine, policy and publics. Through semi-structur..

Breast Cancer Provider Interval Length in Fukushima, Japan, After the 2011 Triple Disaster: A Long-Term Retrospective Study

Akihiko Ozaki, Shuhei Nomura, Claire Leppold, Masaharu Tsubokura, Toyoaki Sawano, Manabu Tsukada, Tomohiro Morita, Tetsuya Tanimoto, Shigehira Saji, Shigeaki Kato, Kazue Yamaoka, Yoshinori Nakata, Hiromichi Ohira

Journal article  |  2020  |  CLINICAL BREAST CANCER

BACKGROUND: Minimizing the interval from symptom onset to treatment commencement is essential for a favorable outcome among breast..

Impacts of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster on healthcare facilities: A systematic literature review (vol 42, 101350, 2020)

Sae Ochi, Claire Leppold, Shigeaki Kato

Journal article  |  2020  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

The authors regret that we found the following corrigendum in our article. Corrigendum 1. For the first sentence of the abstract: ..

Impacts of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster on healthcare facilities: A systematic literature review

Sae Ochi, Claire Leppold, Shigeaki Kato

Journal article  |  2020  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

Understanding how a disaster impact functions of healthcare facilities is important future disaster risk reduction. This study aim..

Internal exposure risk due to radiocesium and the consuming behaviour of local foodstuffs among pregnant women in Minamisoma City near the Fukushima nuclear power plant: a retrospective observational study

Kana Yamamoto, Shuhei Nomura, Masaharu Tsubokura, Michio Murakami, Akihiko Ozaki, Claire Leppold, Toyoaki Sawano, Morihito Takita, Shigeaki Kato, Yukio Kanazawa, Hiroshi Anbe

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMJ OPEN

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to evaluate the internal cesium (Cs) level among pregnant women in Minamisoma City (the area straddli..

Premature death associated with long-term evacuation among a vulnerable population after the Fukushima nuclear disaster A case report

Toyoaki Sawano, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Akihiko Ozaki, Claire Leppold, Mai Takiguchi, Hiroaki Saito, Yuki Shimada, Tomohiro Morita, Manabu Tsukada, Hiromichi Ohira, Masaharu Tsubokura

Journal article  |  2019  |  MEDICINE

RATIONALE: The health vulnerability of certain populations such as children, the elderly and individuals with illnesses or physica..

Long-term trends of hospital admissions among patients with cancer following the 2015 earthquake: a single institution observational study in Kathmandu, Nepal

Anup Uprety, Akihiko Ozaki, Asaka Higuchi, Bikal Ghimire, Toyoaki Sawano, Kenji Tsuda, Shuhei Nomura, Claire Leppold, Masaharu Tsubokura, Tetsuya Tanimoto, Yogendra Prasad Singh

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMJ OPEN

OBJECTIVES: Little is known regarding how natural disasters affect patients with cancer in low-income and middle-income countries...