The Effect of Low-Dose Radiation on the Health of Newborn and Perinatal Mortality
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Li, Yi
Abstract
Since ancient times, health issues has been an issue of importance, and with the popularization of health-related knowledge and the increase in medical expenditures, people in the modern world have paid even more attention to this issue, in particular the health of newborn babies. For instance, the Fetal Origin Hypothesis (FOH) posits that baleful influences from the environment during the fetal period will have effects on the newborn’s health and long term development.
Previous literature has already covered a lot of research on FOH, but the research mostly focuses on external forces such as poverty and diseases. This paper uses instead the Chernobyl incident as a starting point and uses data from the U.S. databases to explore the influences low dosages of radiation have on newborn babies.
We have that discovered that in terms of the newborn’s health, low dosages of radiation do hold some effects, although the influences of the radiation is minimal to the degree of being negligible. Perhaps this is because when the children are affected by the radiation, those that can survive are the healthier babies. The effects of radiation hold more sway upon children in the first few weeks of pregnancy and less on children that have been conceived for more than a few weeks.
Subjects
健康
車諾比事件
低劑量放射性物質
胚胎起源假說
新生兒
Type
thesis
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