The health effects of radon are harmful, and include an increased chance of lung cancer. Radon is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas...
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policy-oriented estimates. Significant uncertainties exist for the health effects of low-dose exposures. Radon is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas and therefore...
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supplies. Radon is a significant contributor to environmental radioactivity and indoor air pollution. Exposure to radon can cause serious health problems...
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negative effects on human health. Smoking and smokeless tobacco use is the single greatest cause of preventable death globally. As many as half of people...
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Dosimetry (section Measures of dose)
their use for "public health ... purposes" be phased out by 31 December 1985. Computational human phantom Health effects of radon Radiation dose reconstruction...
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BEIR V 1990: “Health Effects of Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation” BEIR VI 1999: “The Health Effects of Exposure to Indoor Radon” BEIR VII, Phase...
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Air pollution (redirect from Health effects of air pollution)
radioactive noble gas that is formed from the decay of radium. It is considered to be a health hazard. Radon gas from natural sources can accumulate in buildings...
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Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (2006). "Annex E: Sources-to-effects assessment for radon in homes and workplaces" (PDF). Effects of Ionizing Radiation...
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Radium and radon are important contributors to environmental radioactivity. Radon occurs naturally as a result of decay of radioactive elements in soil...
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Downwinders (category Radiation health effects)
disproportionately high incidences of fatal lung cancer caused by radon exposure. In fact, the health effects of radon were first widely acknowledged when Mormon and Native...
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Radium (redirect from Applications of radon)
the dense radioactive noble gas radon (specifically the isotope 222Rn), which is responsible for much of the danger of environmental radium. It is 2.7 million...
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Radiobiology (redirect from Health effects of radiation)
of clinical and basic medical sciences that involves the study of the effects of ionizing radiation on living things, in particular health effects of...
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Indoor air quality (category Occupational safety and health)
schools. Common pollutants of indoor air include: secondhand tobacco smoke, air pollutants from indoor combustion, radon, molds and other allergens,...
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Radiation hormesis (category Radiation health effects)
PMID 7814250. S2CID 41388715. Becker, K. (2003). "Health Effects of High Radon Environments in Central Europe: Another Test for the LNT Hypothesis...
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R. William Field (category University of Iowa alumni)
recognized expert on the measurement and health effects of radon gas. He started his research career in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania...
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Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (category Radon)
Environment Agency (EA). British Institute of Radiology Health effects of radon International Radon Project NHS Health Research Authority Dental radiography...
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Pollution (redirect from Health effects of pollution)
"Effects of fossil fuel and total anthropogenic emission removal on public health and climate". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the...
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The effects of natural cosmic radiation, radioactive substances such as radon and radium found in the environment, and the potential health hazards of non-ionizing...
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term health effects. One dissenting study is "a re-evaluation of cancer incidence near the Three Mile Island nuclear plant" by Dr Steven Wing of the University...
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jenvrad.2018.01.006. hdl:11250/2499076. PMID 29407642. "Radon". National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Retrieved 2019-04-18. Smith, Jim; Beresford...
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Depleted uranium (redirect from Health and environmental effects of depleted uranium)
in munitions is controversial because of concerns about potential long-term health effects. Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and...
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Environmental hazard (redirect from List of environmental health hazards)
anthropogenic although there exist a number of natural carcinogens and chemical elements like radon and lead may turn up in health-critical concentrations in the natural...
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Ionizing radiation (category Radiation health effects)
radiation areas of Ramsar, Iran". International Congress Series. 1276: 169–174. doi:10.1016/j.ics.2004.11.102. "Health Risks". Radon. EPA. Archived from...
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relationships between radon exposure and lung cancer, a latency period of about 20 years between radon exposure and health effects, and noted that, while...
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levels of radioactivity pose little bit danger but can confuse measurement. A particular problem is encountered with naturally generated radon gas which...
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of the effects of POPs on health is very challenging in the laboratory setting. For example, for organisms exposed to a mixture of POPs, the effects are...
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of electromagnetic radiation are immediately realized as burns, the health effects due to chronic or occupational exposure may not manifest effects for...
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Linear no-threshold model (category Radiation health effects)
protection to estimate stochastic health effects such as radiation-induced cancer, genetic mutations and teratogenic effects on the human body due to exposure...
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Radiation-induced cancer (category Radiation health effects)
others. Some major contributors are discussed below. Radon is responsible for the worldwide majority of the mean public exposure to ionizing radiation. It...
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