Health impact of radon in Europe

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Scope

Purpose

What are the health impacts of radon in the indoor air of residential buildings in Europe?

Boundaries etc

Boundaries, scenarios, intended users, and participants are the same as in the Mega case study.

Definition

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A causal diagram of health impacts of radon in Europe.
Decision variables
Other variables
Indicators

Analyses

Indoor radon case study

  • Estimates health impacts of radon in indoor air of residences.
  • Nation-wide radon concentration distributions were obtained from EnVIE project and UNSCEAR 2000 report.
  • United Kingdom, Czech Republic, and Slovenia were rejected because of lack of data.
  • Exposure-response function was 16 % increase of lung cancer incidence due to 100 Bq/m3 increase of radon (Darby 2004 and 2005).
  • The same lung cancer background rate was assumed for the whole Europe: 58.2 cases/100000 person-years (Globocan 2008).
  • Linear no-threshold ERF assumed for the whole population in each country.
  • The model development, data storage, and model runs were all performed in Opasnet using R software and Opasnet Base.
  • The main page of the sub-assessment is http://en.opasnet.org/w/Health_impact_of_radon_in_Europe


Result

Results

Lung cancer cases due to radon in Europe: Show results

Conclusions

See also

Keywords

Radon, indoor air, lung cancer, Europe

References


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