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Jan M. Zielinski
Health Canada and Department of Epidemiology and Community
Medicine, University of Ottawa
Poços de Caldas
20 May, 2014
Outline
• World Health Organization
International Radon Project
• Sources of data
• Data Quality Objecives (DQO)
• Design Options
• Conclusions
World Health Organization
The 1st Meeting of National Experts for WHO's International Radon
Project
Analia C. Canoba
R. William Field
Luis Santiago Quindos
Daniel Steck
Lene Veiga
Jan M. Zielinski
Estimated budget:
$ 6,200,000 over 4 years
Country Contact
Argentina Lic. Analia Canoba
Gerencia Apoyo Cientifico
Autoridad Regulatoria Nuclear - Centro Atomico Ezeiza
Tel: 54-11-6-779-8363
Fax: 54-11-6-779-8460
E-mail: acanoba@cae.arn.gov.ar
Brazil Dr Lene Veiga
Institute of Radiation Protection and Dosimetry, IRD - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Tel: 55 21 3411-8089
Fax: 55 21 2442-2699
mailto:lene@ird.gov.Br
Bolivia Dr. Alberto Miranda Cuadros
Instituto Boliviano de Ciencia y Tecnología Nuclear
Av. 6 de Agosto No. 2905 - Casilla 4821 - BOLIVIA
Tel: + 59 12 433481
Fax: + 59 12 433063
e-mail: ibten@caoba.entelnet.bo
Colombia Dr. Jorge Ignacio Vallejo Mejia
Ministerio de Minas y Energía
Av. El Dorado - CAN - Oficina 403 - COLOMBIA
TE: + 57 1 3245242
Fax: + 57 1 3245241
e-mail: asesornuclear@col.net.co
Chile Jorge Gamarra
Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear
Jefe Sección Dosimetría
Amunategui 95 - Casilla 188-D -CHILE
E-mail: jgamarra@cchen.cl
Equador Ing. José Carrion Arguello
Comisión Equatoriana de Energia Atomica
Calle Juan Larrea 534 y Riofrío - Casilla 17-01-2517 - ECUADOR
Tel + 593 2 225 166/545 861/773/649
Fax: + 593 2 563 336
e-mail: comecen1@comecenat.gov.ec
Paraguay Dr. Virginia Romero de Gonzalez
Comisión Nacional de Energia Atomica - Paraguay
E-mail:cnea@sce.cnc.una.py
Peru Suzana Gonzáles
Instituto Peruano de Energia Nuclear
E-mail: sgonzales@ipen.gob.pe
Uruguay Dr. Sylvia Fascioli
Dirección Nacional de Tecnologia Nuclear - Uruguay
E-mail: dntncoop@adinet.com.uy
Venezuela Dr. Angel Dias Aponte
Ministério de Energia y Minas
E-mail: adiaz@mem.gov.ve
Data Quality Objecives (DQO)
• We first used the following evaluation order to classify
the reliability of the references: journal publication,
conference proceedings, internal reports, UNSCEAR
Surveys, WHO 2006 Survey, and personal communication.
AFRICA (53) (3) ASIA (45) (17) EUROPE (46) (34) N. AMERICA (23) (4) OCEANIA (14) (2) S. AMERICA (12) (7)
Algeria Afghanistan Albania Antigua and Barbuda Australia Argentina
Angola Armenia Andorra Bahamas Fiji Bolivia
Benin Bahrain Austria Barbados Kiribati Brazil
Botswana Bangladesh Azerbaijan Belize Marshall Islands Chile
Burkina Bhutan Belarus Canada Micronesia Colombia
Burundi Brunei Belgium Costa Rica Nauru Ecuador
Cameroon Burma (Myanmar) Bosnia and Herzegovina Cuba New Zealand Guyana
Cape Verde Cambodia Bulgaria Dominica Palau Paraguay
Central African Republic China Croatia Dominican Rep. Papua New Guinea Peru
Chad Cyprus Czech Republic El Salvador Samoa Suriname
Comoros East Timor Denmark Grenada Solomon Islands Uruguay
Congo India Estonia Guatemala Tonga Venezuela
Congo (Dem. Rep.) Indonesia Finland Haiti Tuvalu
Djibouti Iran France Honduras Vanuatu
Egypt Iraq Georgia Jamaica
Equatorial Guinea Israel Germany Mexico
Eritrea Japan Greece Nicaragua
Ethiopia Jordan Hungary Panama
Gabon Kazakhstan Iceland St. Kitts & Nevis
Gambia Korea (north) Ireland St. Lucia
Ghana Korea (south) Italy St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Guinea Kuwait Latvia Trinidad & Tobago
Guinea-Bissau Kyrgyzstan Liechtenstein United States
Ivory Coast Laos Lithuania
Kenya Lebanon Luxembourg
Lesotho Malaysia Macedonia
Liberia Maldives Malta
Libya Mongolia Moldova
Madagascar Nepal Monaco
Malawi Oman Montenegro
Mali Pakistan Netherlands
Mauritania Philippines Norway
Mauritius Qatar Poland
Morocco Saudi Arabia Portugal
Mozambique Singapore Romania
Namibia Sri Lanka Russian Federation
Niger Syria San Marino
Nigeria Tajikistan Serbia
Rwanda Thailand Slovakia
Sao Tome and Principe Turkey Slovenia
Senegal Turkmenistan Spain
Seychelles United Arab Emirates Sweden
Sierra Leone Uzbekistan Switzerland
Somalia Vietnam Ukraine
South Africa Yemen United Kingdom
Sudan Vatican City
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Summary statistics
No. of Countries No. of Countries % Countries with
Continent
(Total) (Rn data available) (Rn data available)
Africa 53 3 6
Asia 45 17 38
Europe 46 34 74
N America 23 4 17
Oceania 14 2 14
S America 12 7 58
Total 193 67 35
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2013 Literature Search for keywords:
radon, indoor, environmental and survey
• The MEDLINE (which currently includes Radiation
Protection Dosimetry) search for publication published
after 2006 returned 567 references, from which 73
were retained as contributing information about
national/regional indoor radon levels.