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I hope to be involved in projects that aim to gather scientific evidence to inform environmental decision making and advocate for greater equity and justice in environmental governance. Through this work, I hope to learn the skills needed to engage in community based research and leverage community knowledge as expert knowledge. In my department, things are often siloed and issues are only seen through one perspective. I really want to gain more experience in collaborating with a wide array of stakeholders to come up with approaches to mitigate the environmental injustices experienced in under-resourced communities.

To support its arguements and produce claims, this article uses statistics from the health care system, personal testimonials, and extensive field work.

The bibliography shows that many of the resources were papers on mental health issues like PTSD, as well as mental health after specific disasters. From this information, the authors were likely able to find comparisions between mental health trends after disasters, and then how those compare to PTSD trends.

The convention was drafted and signed at a special meeting of the IAEA that took place 5 months after the Chernobyl Disaster. No one author or author country could be determined based on the document.

Emergency response is not addressed in this article. This article could be of interest to medical responders, however, because it helps to give insight on our patient's suffering.

This article has been cited in a few other publications, mostly regarding other aspects of Chernobyl and medicine.

Based on the references, the information for this article was drawn from various medical sources, as well as some historical and anthropological reports.