Evaluation of differences in ultraviolet exposure during weekend and weekday activities

A V Parisi; L R Meldrum; Michael G Kimlin; J C F Wong; J Aitken; J S Mainstone

doi:10.1088/0031-9155/45/8/314

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Evaluation of differences in ultraviolet exposure during weekend and weekday activities

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Evaluation of differences in ultraviolet exposure during weekend and weekday activities

A V Parisi, L R Meldrum, Michael G Kimlin, J C F Wong, J Aitken and J S Mainstone

Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.45(8), pp.2253-2262

2000

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/45/8/314

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radiation carcinogenesis

radiation exposure

The weekday UV exposures to anatomical sites were evaluated for outdoor workers, home workers, adolescents, indoor workers, school staff and students in south-east Queensland, Australia. Additionally, the UV exposures at weekends of school staff, school students, indoor workers and outdoor workers were evaluated. The weekday exposures per day ranged from 1.0 to 11.0 SED for winter to summer respectively. During spring, the ratios of the personal exposures divided by the ambient exposures at the weekend to the personal exposures divided by the ambient exposures on the weekdays to the neck, hand and left arm were at least 3.4, 2.0 and 0.67 for the indoor workers, school staff and students and outdoor workers respectively. The same ratios for the erythemal UV exposures over the year, estimated from the exposures on four days in each of the four seasons, were at least 2.3 for the school staff and at least 1.3 for the 13 to 19 year old school students. These results reinforce the importance of targeting prevention programmes to both weekend and weekday exposures.

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Title: Evaluation of differences in ultraviolet exposure during weekend and weekday activities
Authors: A V Parisi (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
L R Meldrum (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Michael G Kimlin (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
J C F Wong (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
J Aitken (Author) - Queensland Cancer Fund
J S Mainstone (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
Publication details: Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.45(8), pp.2253-2262
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.
Date published: 2000
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/8/314
ISSN: 0031-9155
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449562602621
Output Type: Journal article

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