Background: Radon is a carcinogenic, radioactive gas that can accumulate indoors and is
undetected by human senses. Therefore, accurate knowledge of indoor radon concentration …

Radon (Rn) is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that poses a significant lung cancer risk.
Subsurface fault zones can act as pathways for fluid and gas migration, potentially …

Radon is a radioactive gas with a carcinogenic effect. The malign effect on human health is,
however, mostly influenced by the level of exposure. Dangerous exposure occurs …

Indoor radon and meteorological parameters (temperature, humidity, pressure, precipitation,
indoor dew point, wind direction, wind speed and heat index) were simultaneously …

The “passive” sorption detectors based on the activated charcoal together with scintillation
spectrometry were utilized to measure radon flux density from the soil surface as well as …

Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas derived from the decay of uranium in the
Earth's crust. Radon exposure is the leading cause of lung cancer among non-smokers in …

This study analyzes the long-term trend of the burden of lung cancer attributable to
household air pollution in the Chinese female population, from 1990 to 2019, and make …

This study presents the results of continuous indoor radon measurements in a test-house in
the vicinity of the “Trepča” mine, near the town of Kosovska Mitrovica. Annual measurements …

After cigarette smoking, Radon (222Rn) inhalation has been regarded the second most
significant cause of lung cancer in the US and the world by the US Environmental Protection …

This introduction serves to delineate the contents of the book, focused on public health risk
communication, with a specific emphasis on the case of radon gas. Risk communication …