Review article
Routes and Sources of Exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation in Croatia
Ivica Prlić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8870-4752
; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Marija Surić Mihić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0265-3203
; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Saša Schmidt
; Klinička bolnica "Sestre milosrdnice", Zagreb, Hrvatska
Mladen Hajdinjak
orcid.org/0000-0001-7916-1787
; Haj-Kom d.o.o., Zagreb, Hrvatska
Tomislav Meštrović
; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Zdravko Cerovac
; Alara d.o.o., Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The precautionary principle is explicitly laid down in the EU Treaty and is one of the starting points of the EU environmental policy. The concern over human health has been raised by extended use of mobile and wireless telecommunication technologies, regardless of their obvious economic and societal benefits for the modern society. We are also experiencing a growth in new electromagnetic X-ray technologies for medical diagnostics. Natural electromagnetic radiation from space does not reach the Earth’s surface, except at a very few wavelengths, but non-ionising background radiation covers the globe in a much more complex space matrix than background electromagnetic ionising radiation. This article looks into patient exposure to low-dose, high-frequency, non-ionising electromagnetic X-ray radiation from digital diagnostics machines. At present, there are not enough data to assess public health risk. As man-made ionising and non-ionising radiation sources are expanding enormously, we need to take a holistic as well as a more specifi c, deep ecology approach to protect Croatian population.
Keywords
dose assessment; DRL; effective dose; electromagnetic radiation; exposure pathways; GMS; medical diagnostics; mobile phones; radar; radiation protection; SAR; UMTS; X-ray sources
Hrčak ID:
60287
URI
Publication date:
9.11.2010.
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