Health effects of exposure to radon

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Label

Health effects of exposure to radon

Statement of responsibility

Committee on Health Risks of Exposure to Radon, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council

Contributor

• National Research Council (U.S.), Committee on Health Risks of Exposure to Radon

Subject

• Air Pollutants, Radioactive -- toxicity
• Air Pollution, Indoor
• Air Pollution, Indoor -- adverse effects
• Electronic book
• Gezondheidseffecten
• HEALTH & FITNESS -- Safety
• Health risk assessment
• Health risk assessment
• Indoor air pollution -- Health aspects
• Indoor air pollution -- Health aspects
• Lung Neoplasms -- etiology
• Radiation carcinogenesis
• Radiation carcinogenesis
• Radon
• Radon -- Health aspects
• Radon -- Health aspects
• Radon -- Physiological effect
• Radon -- Physiological effect
• Radon -- Toxicology
• Radon -- Toxicology
• Radon -- toxicity
• Risk Assessment

Genre

• Electronic book

Language

eng

Summary

• To develop appropriate public policy for indoor radon, decisionmakers need an accurate characterization of the risk of radon exposure and the ranges of exposures people actually receive. In response, the BEIR VI committee developed a mathematical model of lung cancer risk associated with radon, incorporating the latest information from epidemiology and scientific studies. This book provides a fresh assessment of exposure-dose relationships and discusses key issues - such as the weight of biological evidence and the associated extrapolations from radon-exposed miners to the larger population - in estimating the risk posed by indoor radon
• This book considers the entire body of evidence on radon and lung cancer, integrating findings from epidemiological studies with evidence from animal experiments and other lines of laboratory investigation. The conclusions will be important for policymakers and environmental advocates, while the technical findings will be of interest to environmental scientists and engineers

Member of

• BEIR (Series), 6

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

363.17/99

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

RA1247.R33

LC item number

.H425 1999eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

• 1999 E-646
• WN 300

NLM item number

H4335 1999

Series statement

BEIR

Series volume

VI