Measurement of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) from Mobile Phone Base Stations and Health Effect in Abeokuta, Ogun State, South-Western Nigeria

Health risks from mobile phone base stations.

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Assessment of geogenic natural radionuclide contents of soil samples collected from Ogun State, South western, Nigeria

Background: Natural radionuclides are always present in the environment. Human exposure to the background radiation is inevitable. It is therefore important to assess health risk associated with these radionuclides. Materials and Methods: The distribution of natural radionuclides 238U, 232Th and 40K in soil samples collected from all the twenty (20) local Governments headquarter areas in Ogun s...

Safety Issues of Mobile Phone Base Stations

Time Averaged Transmitter Power and Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields from Mobile Phone Base Stations

Models for exposure assessment of high frequency electromagnetic fields from mobile phone base stations need the technical data of the base stations as input. One of these parameters, the Equivalent Radiated Power (ERP), is a time-varying quantity, depending on communication traffic. In order to determine temporal averages of the exposure, corresponding averages of the ERP have to be available....

Systematic review on the health effects of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from mobile phone base stations.

OBJECTIVE to review and evaluate the recent literature on the health effects of exposure to mobile phone base station (MPBS) radiation. METHODS we performed a systematic review of randomized human trials conducted in laboratory settings and of epidemiological studies that investigated the health effects of MPBS radiation in the everyday environment. FINDINGS we included in the analysis 17 a...