The Local Health Impact of Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing: Cancer Epidemiology in Areas Adjacent to the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan

ISBN-13: 9783631537305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 234 str.

Susanne Bauer

Spis treści

Contents: Ionising Radiation and Cancer - The Perspective of Epidemiology - History of Nuclear Weapons Testing - The Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, Kazakhstan - The Semipalatinsk Historical Cohort Study - A Registry-Based Case-Control Study of Stomach Cancer in the Altai Region - The Assessment of Radiation Risk - Strengths and Limitations of the Epidemiologic Investigations - Public Health Implications and Compensation Programmes.

O autorze

The Author: Susanne Bauer holds a Master of Science in Environmental Studies from Berlin Technical University and a Doctor of Public Health from the University of Bielefeld. She has worked as a research associate at the Institute of Health Sciences, Berlin Technical University and at the BfS-Institute for Radiation Hygiene, Munich, where she participated in radiation epidemiology projects, funded by the European Commission and conducted in co-operation with scientists in the former Soviet Union. Her postdoctoral research at Copenhagen University is on the recent history of epidemiology.