Office of Thyroid Ultrasound Examination Promotion, Office of Thyroid Ultrasound Examination Administration
Roles and Activities
Implementation of the Thyroid Ultrasound Examination program
Support for participants
- Support at the Primary Examination
A doctor explains to, and answer questions from the participant about their provisional results after the examination. - Support at the Confirmatory Examination
A Thyroid Support Team attends to concerns and anxieties of the participants.
Development and management of a network of medical facilities capable of the thyroid examination
- Primary Examination
85 medical facilities inside Fukushima Prefecture / 137 medical facilities outside Fukushima Prefecture - Confirmatory Examination
6 medical facilities inside Fukushima Prefecture / 38 medical facilities outside Fukushima Prefecture
Information dissemination
1. Dissemination of advantages and disadvantages
- From the fifth-round full-scale survey, we have enclosed information in the examination notice and a booklet that describes advantages and disadvantages to make them well-known, so that all eligible persons will be able to decide whether or not to undergo the examination after understanding the contents.
- We take every opportunity to widely publicize the advantages and disadvantages of the Thyroid Ultrasound Examination through public relations tools such as Fukushima Prefectural public relations broadcasting or Iki Iki Kenko Zukuri (Live with Vitality) Forum.
- We created an animated explanatory video about the Thyroid Ultrasound Examination.
Advantages and disadvantages of the Thyroid Ultrasound (Available only in Japanese)
2. Issuing of Thyroid Newsletters
- No. 18 (Issued in August, 2022)
- No. 19 (Issued in February, 2023)
Thyroid Newsletters (Available only in Japanese)