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Consequences of changing Canadian activity patterns since the COVID-19 pandemic include increased residential radon gas exposure for younger people
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced widespread behaviour changes that shifted how people split their time between different environments, altering health risks. Here, we report an update of North American activity patterns before and after pandemic onset, and implications to radioactive radon gas exp...
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10081328/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37029226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32416-8 |
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author | Cholowsky, Natasha L. Chen, Myra J. Selouani, Ghozllane Pett, Sophie C. Pearson, Dustin D. Danforth, John M. Fenton, Shelby Rydz, Ela Diteljan, Matthew J. Peters, Cheryl E. Goodarzi, Aaron A. |
author_facet | Cholowsky, Natasha L. Chen, Myra J. Selouani, Ghozllane Pett, Sophie C. Pearson, Dustin D. Danforth, John M. Fenton, Shelby Rydz, Ela Diteljan, Matthew J. Peters, Cheryl E. Goodarzi, Aaron A. |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has produced widespread behaviour changes that shifted how people split their time between different environments, altering health risks. Here, we report an update of North American activity patterns before and after pandemic onset, and implications to radioactive radon gas exposure, a leading cause of lung cancer. We surveyed 4009 Canadian households home to people of varied age, gender, employment, community, and income. Whilst overall time spent indoors remained unchanged, time in primary residence increased from 66.4 to 77% of life (+ 1062 h/y) after pandemic onset, increasing annual radiation doses from residential radon by 19.2% (0.97 mSv/y). Disproportionately greater changes were experienced by younger people in newer urban or suburban properties with more occupants, and/or those employed in managerial, administrative, or professional roles excluding medicine. Microinfluencer-based public health messaging stimulated health-seeking behaviour amongst highly impacted, younger groups by > 50%. This work supports re-evaluating environmental health risks modified by still-changing activity patterns. |
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spelling | pubmed-100813282023-04-07 Consequences of changing Canadian activity patterns since the COVID-19 pandemic include increased residential radon gas exposure for younger people Cholowsky, Natasha L. Chen, Myra J. Selouani, Ghozllane Pett, Sophie C. Pearson, Dustin D. Danforth, John M. Fenton, Shelby Rydz, Ela Diteljan, Matthew J. Peters, Cheryl E. Goodarzi, Aaron A. Sci Rep Article The COVID-19 pandemic has produced widespread behaviour changes that shifted how people split their time between different environments, altering health risks. Here, we report an update of North American activity patterns before and after pandemic onset, and implications to radioactive radon gas exposure, a leading cause of lung cancer. We surveyed 4009 Canadian households home to people of varied age, gender, employment, community, and income. Whilst overall time spent indoors remained unchanged, time in primary residence increased from 66.4 to 77% of life (+ 1062 h/y) after pandemic onset, increasing annual radiation doses from residential radon by 19.2% (0.97 mSv/y). Disproportionately greater changes were experienced by younger people in newer urban or suburban properties with more occupants, and/or those employed in managerial, administrative, or professional roles excluding medicine. Microinfluencer-based public health messaging stimulated health-seeking behaviour amongst highly impacted, younger groups by > 50%. This work supports re-evaluating environmental health risks modified by still-changing activity patterns. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10081328/ /pubmed/37029226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32416-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Cholowsky, Natasha L. Chen, Myra J. Selouani, Ghozllane Pett, Sophie C. Pearson, Dustin D. Danforth, John M. Fenton, Shelby Rydz, Ela Diteljan, Matthew J. Peters, Cheryl E. Goodarzi, Aaron A. Consequences of changing Canadian activity patterns since the COVID-19 pandemic include increased residential radon gas exposure for younger people |
title | Consequences of changing Canadian activity patterns since the COVID-19 pandemic include increased residential radon gas exposure for younger people |
title_full | Consequences of changing Canadian activity patterns since the COVID-19 pandemic include increased residential radon gas exposure for younger people |
title_fullStr | Consequences of changing Canadian activity patterns since the COVID-19 pandemic include increased residential radon gas exposure for younger people |
title_full_unstemmed | Consequences of changing Canadian activity patterns since the COVID-19 pandemic include increased residential radon gas exposure for younger people |
title_short | Consequences of changing Canadian activity patterns since the COVID-19 pandemic include increased residential radon gas exposure for younger people |
title_sort | consequences of changing canadian activity patterns since the covid-19 pandemic include increased residential radon gas exposure for younger people |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10081328/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37029226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32416-8 |
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