The Chernobyl accident emitted much more radioactivity and a wider diversity of radioactive elements than Fukushima Daiichi has so far, but it was iodine and caesium that caused most of the health
risk — especially
outside the
immediate area of the Chernobyl plant, says Malcolm Crick, secretary of a United Nations body that has just reviewed the health effects of Chernobyl.
Our findings support a family systems
risk model14 that explains children's cognitive, social and emotional development using information about five kinds of family
risk or protective factors: (1) Each family member's level of adaptation, self - perceptions, mental health and psychological distress; (2) The quality of both mother - child and father - child relationships; (3) The quality of the relationship between the parents, including communication styles, conflict resolution, problem - solving styles and emotion regulation; (4) Patterns of both couple and parent - child relationships transmitted across the generations; and (5) The balance between life stressors and social supports
outside the
immediate family.