background: radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. in canada, the health authorities have no access to comprehensive profile of the communities built over uranium-rich micro-geological settings. the present indoor radon monitoring guideline is unable to provide an accurate identification of health hazards due to discounting several parameters of housing characteristics....

The average annual outdoor background radiation dosage across the study area was ∼two times greater than world average. Higher observed in indoor environments outdoors majority of sampling locations.

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...

background: ionizing radiation is present in all environment of the earth’s surface, beneath the earth and in the atmosphere. human beings are exposed to external radiation from their surroundings naturally and also to internal radiation from food, water and air they consume. then, it is important to measure and develop knowledge about radiation. objective: this study is designed to evaluate th...

n 1987 the International Agency for Research of Cancer (IARC) evaluated radon and its decay products as human carcinogens (1). Large epidemiologic studies conducted in Western Europe in the Õ90s showed that this radioactive gas accounted for 50 to 90% of a radiological dose (2). Very high residential concentrations of radon were measured in Sweden and Finland (3-5). They were 5,000 times higher...

As a part of the China-Japan cooperative research on natural radiation epidemiology, we have carried out a dose-assessment study to evaluate the external exposure to natural radiation in the high background radiation areas (HBRA) of Yangjiang in Guangdong province and in the control areas (CA) of Enping prefecture since 1991. Because of the difficulties in measuring the individual doses of all ...

introduction guilan is one of the provinces in north of iran, with population of 2,480,874 and a total area of ​​14,042 square kilometers. this study assesses the outdoor natural gamma dose rates in the air of 49 cities in guilan and calculates corresponding average annual effective dose. materials and methods a total of 260 different sample points measurements were carried out. the results inc...