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| Title |
Radon Sources and Associated Risk in Terms of Exposure and Dose
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Public Health, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00207 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Efstratios G. Vogiannis, Dimitrios Nikolopoulos |
| Abstract |
Radon concerns the international scientific community from the early twentieth century, initially as radium emanation and nearly the second half of the century as a significant hazard to human health. The initial brilliant period of its use as medicine was followed by a period of intense concern for its health effects. Miners in Europe and later in the U.S were the primary target groups surveyed. Nowadays, there is a concrete evidence that radon and its progeny can cause lung cancer (1). Human activities may create or modify pathways increasing indoor radon concentration compared to outdoor background. These pathways can be controlled by preventive and corrective actions (2). Indoor radon and its short-lived progeny either attached on aerosol particles or free, compose an air mixture that carries a significant energy amount [Potential Alpha-Energy Concentration (PAEC)]. Prior research at that topic focused on the exposure on PAEC and the dose delivered by the human body or tissues. Special mention was made to the case of water workers due to inadequate data. Furthermore, radon risk assessment and relevant legislation for the dose delivered by man from radon and its progeny has been also reviewed. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 111 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 111 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 17 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 19 | 17% |
| Unknown | 37 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy | 15 | 14% |
| Environmental Science | 15 | 14% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 8% |
| Chemistry | 4 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 22 | 20% |
| Unknown | 42 | 38% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 January 2015.
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