Exposure to radon gas at schools, Cohen's paradox and public health policy.

["Jim Nelson" <nelsonjima@HOTMAIL.COM>]

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Harefuah 2001 Sep;140(9):872-6, 893



Exposure to radon gas at schools, Cohen's paradox and public health policy.



Karsenty E, Leventhal A.



Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel.



Finding Radon levels above the legal threshold in schools and private homes

has become an highly publicized problem in Israel, due to the rising

awareness of the public to environmental matters and its influence on human

health. However in the last decade a growing number of research reports have

put serious doubts upon the validity of the scientific model used for

assessing the health risk due to exposure to low intensity ionising

radiation. The present paper surveys the development of the critics of the

Linear No-Threshold Hypothesis (LNTH) that was used up to now as a

scientific basis for public health policy in this field. The implications

for the Israeli population and Health authorities are discussed. In the

authors' opinion, controlling radon levels is an aim by itself,

irrespectively of its causal relationship to lung cancer, and is part of a

wider policy of maintaining the background exposure to ionizing radiation of

the Israeli population to the lowest possible level.





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