The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development(https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda),adopted by all Member States in 2015,provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet,now and in...The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development(https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda),adopted by all Member States in 2015,provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet,now and into the future.At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)complemented by 169 Targets as a universal call to action to end poverty,protect the planet,and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.展开更多
We are surrounded by various hazards and threats to the health of people,animals and the environment.Therefore,the protection work is multifaceted and needs to consider all potential hazards,and balance all po-tential...We are surrounded by various hazards and threats to the health of people,animals and the environment.Therefore,the protection work is multifaceted and needs to consider all potential hazards,and balance all po-tential impacts to the extent practicable.Whilst separated sectorial protections have proved capable of delivering adequate levels of protection for various risks we are facing,it is crucially important that protective activities of various sectors and disciplines be better integrated into a more holistic and reasonably optimized protection strategy-One Protection.Even though the holistic approach has been in practice for decades,more has to be done for better integration with the aim to achieve net health and societal benefits“as optimal as reasonably achievable”(AOARA).In this paper,radiological protection is taken as an example to discuss challenges when sector-specific protective activities are not well integrated and lack prioritization and optimization.It demon-strates the need for better integrated and reasonably optimized protective practices to achieve the objectives of One World One Health and the UN Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs).展开更多
Objective: To assess if there is a relationship between residential radon exposure and two lung cancer histologicaltypes, small-cell carcinoma (diagnosed in people with a smoking history) and adenocarcinoma (the mostc...Objective: To assess if there is a relationship between residential radon exposure and two lung cancer histologicaltypes, small-cell carcinoma (diagnosed in people with a smoking history) and adenocarcinoma (the mostcommonly diagnosed histologic type in people who have never smoked) among males and females in Canada.Methods: With survey data of long-term radon measurements in residential homes, long-term averaged tobaccoconsumption rates in the units of cigarettes per day per person and long-term averaged age-standardized lungcancer incidence rates at provincial level, simple linear fitting (ANOVA linear regression) was applied in this studyto determine the effect on lung cancer induction by smoking and exposure to indoor radon, and to assess if there isa relationship between residential radon exposure and lung cancer histological types.Results: Lung cancer incidence rates correlate very well with the tobacco consumption rates (P < 0.05). However,females appear to be more likely than males to develop lung cancer at a given amount of cigarette consumption.For both small-cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma, a statistically significant correlation between incidence rateand mean radon concentration was observed for females, the correlation was much stronger for adenocarcinoma(P = 0.0057) than small-cell carcinoma (P = 0.0483). However, there was no such correlation for males.Conclusion: It is possible that female non-smokers are more susceptible to radon-induced lung cancer, and the jointeffect of radon exposure and tobacco smoking may be worse in female smokers compared to males, such thathigher incidence rate of adenocarcinoma among females compared to males were observed in recent decades,even though females never smoked more than males.展开更多
文摘The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development(https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda),adopted by all Member States in 2015,provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet,now and into the future.At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)complemented by 169 Targets as a universal call to action to end poverty,protect the planet,and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
文摘We are surrounded by various hazards and threats to the health of people,animals and the environment.Therefore,the protection work is multifaceted and needs to consider all potential hazards,and balance all po-tential impacts to the extent practicable.Whilst separated sectorial protections have proved capable of delivering adequate levels of protection for various risks we are facing,it is crucially important that protective activities of various sectors and disciplines be better integrated into a more holistic and reasonably optimized protection strategy-One Protection.Even though the holistic approach has been in practice for decades,more has to be done for better integration with the aim to achieve net health and societal benefits“as optimal as reasonably achievable”(AOARA).In this paper,radiological protection is taken as an example to discuss challenges when sector-specific protective activities are not well integrated and lack prioritization and optimization.It demon-strates the need for better integrated and reasonably optimized protective practices to achieve the objectives of One World One Health and the UN Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs).
文摘Objective: To assess if there is a relationship between residential radon exposure and two lung cancer histologicaltypes, small-cell carcinoma (diagnosed in people with a smoking history) and adenocarcinoma (the mostcommonly diagnosed histologic type in people who have never smoked) among males and females in Canada.Methods: With survey data of long-term radon measurements in residential homes, long-term averaged tobaccoconsumption rates in the units of cigarettes per day per person and long-term averaged age-standardized lungcancer incidence rates at provincial level, simple linear fitting (ANOVA linear regression) was applied in this studyto determine the effect on lung cancer induction by smoking and exposure to indoor radon, and to assess if there isa relationship between residential radon exposure and lung cancer histological types.Results: Lung cancer incidence rates correlate very well with the tobacco consumption rates (P < 0.05). However,females appear to be more likely than males to develop lung cancer at a given amount of cigarette consumption.For both small-cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma, a statistically significant correlation between incidence rateand mean radon concentration was observed for females, the correlation was much stronger for adenocarcinoma(P = 0.0057) than small-cell carcinoma (P = 0.0483). However, there was no such correlation for males.Conclusion: It is possible that female non-smokers are more susceptible to radon-induced lung cancer, and the jointeffect of radon exposure and tobacco smoking may be worse in female smokers compared to males, such thathigher incidence rate of adenocarcinoma among females compared to males were observed in recent decades,even though females never smoked more than males.
