Home energy efficiency and radon related risk of lung cancer: modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the effect of reducing home ventilation as part of household energy efficiency measures on deaths from radon related lung cancer.

Design

Modelling study.

Setting

England.

Intervention

Home energy efficiency interventions, motivated in part by targets for reducing greenhouse gases, which entail reduction in uncontrolled ventilation in keeping with good practice guidance.

Main outcome measures

Modelled current and future distributions of indoor radon levels for the English housing stock and associated changes in life years due to lung cancer mortality, estimated using life tables.

Results

Increasing the air tightness of dwellings (without compensatory purpose-provided ventilation) increased mean indoor radon concentrations b

SUBMITTER: Milner J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3898159 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature