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Radiation Emergencies: Information for Public Health Professionals [2012]

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  • Corporate Authors:
    National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), CDC
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    Public health professionals will play an important role in any radiation emergency. Key responsibilities (in addition to traditional public health functions) will include: Making shelter-in-place or evacuation recommendations; Identifying people contaminated with radioactive materials or exposed to radiation (population monitoring); Conducting or assisting with decontamination; and, Developing criteria for entry and operations within the incident site. To help state, local, and tribal public health professionals develop plans and response capacity for radiation emergencies, CDC has the following resources.
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    The attached PDF file captures the intellectual content of the Radiation Emergencies: Information for Public Health Professionals webpage as of May 3, 2012. Some of the links will still operate and lead to pages or downloads of content from the Internet Archive. This preservation PDF of the web page was created by Stacks staff on 2024-04-25. If you problems accessing content, please contact Stacks staff.

    The most recent version of the Radiation Emergencies: Information for Public Health Professionals webpage can be located at https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/emergencies/publichealth.htm.

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