[Organizational principles of medical and public health measures during a large-scale accident at an atomic power station based on the Chernobyl experience]. / Organizatsionnye printsipy mediko-sanitarnykh meropriiatii pri krupnomasshtabnoi avarii na AES po opytu Chernobylia.

The whole complex of organizational medical measures on the elimination of aftereffect of the large-scale radiation accident at the NPP may consist of the three basic groups: 1) preventive, aimed at maximally lowering the population and its critical subpopulations exposure levels; 2) curative and diagnostic, which, in addition to the rendering of medical assistance, provide for implementation of the programs of long-term population health studies, and 3) sanitation and educational, aimed at preventing negative social and psychological processes that accompany radiation accidents.