Importance of individualized disaster preparedness for hospitalized or institutionalized patients: Lessons learned from the legal revisions made to the Basic Act on Disaster Management in Japan following the Fukushima nuclear disaster

J Glob Health. 2021 Oct 2:11:03108. doi: 10.7189/jogh.11.03108. eCollection 2021.

Makoto Yoshida^{1

2}, Toyoaki Sawano^{3

4

5}, Yuki Senoo¹, Akihiko Ozaki^{1

6}, Yoshitaka Nishikawa⁷, Tianchen Zhao⁴, Hiroaki Saito^{4

8}, Yuzo Shimazu^{4

9}, Saori Nonaka⁵, Yuji Moto⁵, Chika Yamamoto¹⁰, Masaharu Tsubokura^{4

5}

¹ Medical Governance Research Institute, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
² Teikyo University School of Medicine, Itabahi-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan.
⁴ Department of Radiation Health Management, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan.
⁵ Research Center for Community Medicine, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Minamisoma, Fukushima, Japan.
⁶ Department of Breast Surgery, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan.
⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, Soma Central Hospital, Soma, Fukushima, Japan.
⁸ Department of Gastroenterology, Sendai Kousei Hospital, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
⁹ Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience, Yatsuyamada, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan.
¹⁰ Fukushima Red Cross Hospital, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan.

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