Improvements should be made in the statistical, data collection and registry systems used by local scientists by the adoption and application of internationally accepted standards and methods. At present there are no Federal or local plans for post-accident medical research. However, the existing plans for screening and treatment could lay the foundation. The evaluation of new therapeutics for post-exposure application is needed. More needs to be known about radiation-related performance decrement.
More research is needed to distinguish psychogenic effects from bioeffects of organic origin.
To date, outmigration from the FSU is on the order of 0.75 million people and this is growing steadily. At present, there are at least 100,000 FSU immigrants in Isreal who lived or worked in areas contaminated by fallout from the Chernobyl accident. Sources of selection bias such as the Adam effect, or who gets out or who comes , the Daniel effect, or what they bring with them and the Isreal-Egypt effect, that is, what they meet , should be taken into consideration when conducting immigrant studies. The effects of migration on morbidity and mortality from cancer and non-cancer should be evaluated. A standing scientific advisory committee should be created.