Personal Dosimetry of Solar Uv Radiation for Different Outdoor Activities

Herlihy, Ellen; Gies, Peter; Roy, Colin; Jones, Michael E.

doi:10.1111/j.1751-1097.1994.tb05106.x

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“…9, 10, 12 Using the same analysis for shoulder and wrist dosimeters, we found that the shoulder received significantly higher UVER exposure, in agreement with other studies on outdoor activities. 36,37 If we considerer the solar height, UVER exposure received by all children in the S.H. 1 period is significantly lower than that received in the other two periods.…”

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Solar UV exposure of primary schoolchildren in Valencia, Spain

Serrano

Cañada

Moreno

2011

Photochem Photobiol Sci

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To quantify schoolchildren's exposure to ultraviolet erythemal radiation (UVER), personal dosimeters (VioSpor) were used to measure biologically effective ultraviolet (UV) radiation received in the course of their daily school activities. The study took place in two primary schools in Valencia (39º 28 ' N) Spain, for several weeks from March 2008 until May 2009, with two age groups (6-8 years and 10-11 years) and involved about 47 schoolchildren. The median daily UV exposure values for all age groups and solar height intervals considered in the study ranged from 1.31 to 2.11 standard erythemal doses (SEDs). Individual UV exposure was analyzed as a function of age, gender and dosimeter position. Significant statistical differences were found between different age groups, with the younger age group receiving higher statistically significant UVER exposure. It was also found that boys received significantly higher UVER exposure than girls. It was also noted that shoulder dosimeters registered higher readings than wrist dosimeters.Exposure ratio (ER) is defined as the ratio between the personal dose on a selected anatomical site and the corresponding ambient dose on a horizontal plane. The median ER for all age groups and solar height intervals in the study range from 4.5% to 10.7%, with higher values at lower solar heights.3

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Solar UV exposure of primary schoolchildren in Valencia, Spain

Serrano

Cañada

Moreno

2011

Photochem Photobiol Sci

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“…Since the 1970s, some studies have measured sun exposure during selected activities such as gardening or walking (7,8,9,10,11).Others have focussed on measuring personal solar UVR exposure to generate baseline exposures in different population groups and behavioural settings (12,13). There have also been a few longitudinal studies concerning child sun exposure (14,15,16).…”

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Novel approach to analysing large data sets of personal sun exposure measurements

Blesić

Stratimirović

Ajtić

et al. 2016

J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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Personal sun exposure measurements provide important information to guide the development of sun awareness and disease prevention campaigns. We assess the scaling properties of personal ultraviolet radiation (pUVR) sun exposure measurements using the Wavelet Transform (WT) spectral analysis to process long-range, high frequency personal recordings collected by electronic UVR dosimeters designed to measure erythemal UVR exposure. We analyzed the sun exposure recordings of schoolchildren, farmers, marathon runners and outdoor workers in South Africa, and construction workers and work site supervisors in New Zealand.We found scaling behavior in all the analysed pUVR datasets. We found that the observed scaling changes from uncorrelated to long-range correlated with increasing duration of sun exposure. Peaks in the WT spectra that we found suggest the existence of characteristic times in sun exposure behavior that were to some extent universal across our dataset. Our study also showed that WT measures enable group classification, as well as distinction between individual UVR exposures, otherwise unattainable by conventional statistical methods.

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“…The solar UV exposures to selected human anatomical sites, for example the wrist and shoulder during normal daily activities has been measured using personal UV dosimeters [1][2][3][4][5]. Additionally, previous researchers have employed polysulphone dosimeters to determine the distribution of solar erythemal UV exposure to the human body in predominantly upright positions (for example, [4,6]).…”

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