Journal article
Excess mortality due to indirect health effects of the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima, Japan: Aretrospective observational study
T Morita, S Nomura, M Tsubokura, C Leppold, S Gilmour, S Ochi, A Ozaki, Y Shimada, K Yamamoto, M Inoue, S Kato, K Shibuya, M Kami
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2017
Abstract
Background Evidence on the indirect health impacts of disasters is limited. We assessed the excess mortality risk associated with the indirect health impacts of the 2011 triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster) in Fukushima, Japan. Methods The mortality rates in Soma and Minamisoma cities in Fukushima from 2006 to 2015 were calculated using vital statistics and resident registrations. We investigated the excess mortality risk, defined as the increased mortality risk between postdisaster and predisaster after excluding direct deaths attributed to the physical force of the disaster. Multivariate Poisson regression models were used to estimate the relative risk (RR) of mortali..
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Funding Acknowledgements
MI is the beneficiary of a financial contribution from the AXA Research Fund as chair holder of the AXA Department of Health and Human Security, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo. The AXA Research Fund has no role in this work. The authors declare no other conflicts of interest.