[HTML][HTML] Consequences of changing Canadian activity patterns since the COVID-19 pandemic include increased residential radon gas exposure for younger people

NL Cholowsky, MJ Chen, G Selouani, SC Pett… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced widespread behaviour changes that shifted how
people split their time between different environments, altering health risks. Here, we report …

[HTML][HTML] A psycho-social-environmental lens on radon air pollutant: authorities', mitigation contractors', and residents' perceptions of barriers and facilitators to …

D Hevey, T Perko, M Martell, G Bradley… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Radon is a major indoor air pollutant that poses a significant risk of lung cancer
to those exposed in their homes. While mitigation of high radon levels in homes has been …

[HTML][HTML] Rural communities experience higher radon exposure versus urban areas, potentially due to drilled groundwater well annuli acting as unintended radon gas …

SM Khan, DD Pearson, EL Eldridge, TA Morais… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Repetitive, long-term inhalation of radioactive radon gas is one of the leading causes of lung
cancer, with exposure differences being a function of geographic location, built environment …

[HTML][HTML] Behaviourally-informed household communications increase uptake of radon tests in a randomised controlled trial

S Timmons, PD Lunn - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Exposure to radon gas is a leading cause of lung cancer. Testing homes for the gas is
straightforward, yet most people do not undertake tests even when offered freely. We report …

[HTML][HTML] Profound DNA methylomic differences between single-and multi-fraction alpha irradiations of lung fibroblasts

MN Vera-Chang, JM Danforth, M Stuart, AA Goodarzi… - Clinical …, 2023 - Springer
Background Alpha (α)-radiation is a ubiquitous environmental agent with epigenotoxic
effects. Human exposure to α-radiation at potentially harmful levels can occur repetitively …

[HTML][HTML] Geospatial Science for the Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer in the Exposome Era

T VoPham, AJ White, RR Jones - Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & …, 2024 - AACR
Geospatial science is the science of location or place that harnesses geospatial tools, such
as geographic information systems (GIS), to understand the features of the environment …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring societal attitudes and behaviours towards radon indoors: A case study of Slovenia

T Perko, P Thijssen, D Hevey, C Turcanu… - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Public opinion surveys play a crucial role in assessing public awareness, knowledge, and
radon risk perception in the context of national Radon Action Plans. However, many of these …

[HTML][HTML] When citizen science meets radon building diagnosis: synthesis of a french pilot project developed in the framework of the European RadoNorm research …

S Andresz, A Marchand-Moury… - Open Research …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As part of the European RadoNorm research project, citizen science pilot projects focusing
on the management of radon risk in houses have been implemented in four countries. This …

[PDF][PDF] ESRI Working Paper No. 775

S Timmons, A Papadopoulos, P Lunn - 2024 - esri.ie
A basic function of government is to manage environmental risks. This requires
measurement of how the public perceive different risks, but it is hard to measure risk …

Radon Exposure and Incident Stroke Risk in the Women's Health Initiative

SF Buchheit, JM Collins, KM Anthony, SAM Love… - Neurology, 2024 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives Little is known about the role of radon in the epidemiology of
stroke among women. We therefore examined the association between home radon …