Iodine prophylaxis following nuclear accidents
Subtitle: proceedings of a joint WHO/CEC workshop, July 1988
By: edited by Eileen Rubery and Elizabeth Smales.
Contributors: Rubery, Eileen.; Smales, Elizabeth.; World Health Organization.; Commission of the European Communities.; World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Thyroid gland -- Diseases -- Prevention -- Congresses; Iodine -- Therapeutic use -- Congresses; Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Health aspects -- Congresses; Iodine -- Isotopes -- Toxicology -- Congresses; Iodine -- therapeutic use -- congresses; Radiation Injuries -- prevention & control -- congresses; Thyroid gland -- physiology -- congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Published on behalf of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe."
"Recommendations of the workshop provided the basis for the development of guidelines ... issued by the WHO Regional Office for Europe (Guidelines for iodine prophylaxis, Environmental health series, no. 35, 1989)"--Pref.