Abstract
The problems arising from Three Mile Island were not limited to deficiencies in reactor design, safety controls or manpower training. The author, Pennsylvania's newly appointed Secretary of Health, states that the public health sector was totally unprepared to cope with this accident. H e contends that decisions were made by engineers and physicists when medical doctors were called for; that the incidence of hypothyroidism has increased tenfold downwind from two Pennsylvania reactor sites and he appeals for cooperation between physicians specialized in radiation medicine, nuclear physicists and engineers to establish public health safeguards in the event of future accidents.
MacLeod, G K
[1]
- Pittsburgh Univ., PA (USA). Graduate School of Public Health
Citation Formats
MacLeod, G K.
Some public health lessons from Three Mile Island: a case study in chaos.
Norway: N. p.,
1981.
Web.
MacLeod, G K.
Some public health lessons from Three Mile Island: a case study in chaos.
Norway.
MacLeod, G K.
1981.
"Some public health lessons from Three Mile Island: a case study in chaos."
Norway.
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abstractNote = {The problems arising from Three Mile Island were not limited to deficiencies in reactor design, safety controls or manpower training. The author, Pennsylvania's newly appointed Secretary of Health, states that the public health sector was totally unprepared to cope with this accident. H e contends that decisions were made by engineers and physicists when medical doctors were called for; that the incidence of hypothyroidism has increased tenfold downwind from two Pennsylvania reactor sites and he appeals for cooperation between physicians specialized in radiation medicine, nuclear physicists and engineers to establish public health safeguards in the event of future accidents.}
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title = {Some public health lessons from Three Mile Island: a case study in chaos}
author = {MacLeod, G K}
abstractNote = {The problems arising from Three Mile Island were not limited to deficiencies in reactor design, safety controls or manpower training. The author, Pennsylvania's newly appointed Secretary of Health, states that the public health sector was totally unprepared to cope with this accident. H e contends that decisions were made by engineers and physicists when medical doctors were called for; that the incidence of hypothyroidism has increased tenfold downwind from two Pennsylvania reactor sites and he appeals for cooperation between physicians specialized in radiation medicine, nuclear physicists and engineers to establish public health safeguards in the event of future accidents.}
journal = []
volume = {10:1}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Norway}
year = {1981}
month = {Jan}
}