Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2014. Vol. 59. No. 3. P. 26-31

RADIATION EPIDEMIOLOGY

A.K. Gouskova

Main Sources of Errors in Lifelong Risk Evaluation for Persons Exposed to Ionizing Radiation

Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ABSTRACT

The article is a discussion on literature data related to state of health of different groups of people exposed to radiation. Health risk criteria for deterministic and stochastic effects are determined. It is made an attempt to estimate the role of radiation in late effects appearance and to find their relationship with under-threshold dose at the moment of irradiation. Incomplete information on the working activity or inhabited conditions for different group of people is evaluated as the main sources of errors in health risk estimation. It is shown that it is more reasonable to make a differentiation in social privileges dependently on the economical state of the country than on the health risk estimation. It is also shown that the health state of an individual could not be evaluated on the base of knowledge on the health state of groups of people.

Key words: health risk criteria, early and late periods after exposure, deterministic and stochastic effects, space-time dose distribution significance