Radon on the RADAR

摘要 肯塔基州的高氡潜力和高吸烟率为 肺癌病例比例过高。我们的跨学科，社区学术团队主导的项目， 雷达上的氡(居民采取行动探测和减轻氡)将解决社区关注的问题 通过识别增加氡侵入的地质和大气条件来了解肺癌 将这种知识转化为更多的住宅风险意识，使家庭氡测试成为可能 和报告，以及越来越多的人获得负担得起的和足够的氡缓解。我们将组织地质学家 与公民科学家一起确定新的氡探测技术(即AirThings)与 传统的木炭试剂盒和室外土壤氡测量在一系列大气和地质 为弥合我们在理解氡风险方面的关键知识鸿沟创造了条件。这项研究将建立 环境健康方面的能力：(A)对公民进行严格的数据收集和解释 研究结果；(B)让这些公民科学家参与创建和促进图书馆借阅计划，以增加 氡测试；和(C)制定可持续的环境健康行动计划，以减少氡暴露 在农村社区。我们的总体假设是，通过不断增加关于地质和地质的知识 大气条件会影响氡，与公民科学家合作使用新的氡检测 技术和数据转换，通过增加获得低成本氡缓解的机会，我们将减少 氡风险。目标1将使用公民科学的方法在四个月内识别和培训60名社区居民 KY县测试氡，评估环境健康素养(EHL)和自我效能的变化。 目标2将比较室内室内氡值和土壤氡值随时间的变化，控制大气。 条件、季节性、地质、地形和家里吸烟。目标3将创建和评估 与四个县的400名房主一起试行氡探测器图书馆借阅计划。AIM 4将发射 氡探测器贷款计划和审查家庭测试和访问的变化基于地质 氡位势图。目标5将研究公民科学家领导的氡联盟对REACH的影响， 有效性、采纳性、执行性、维持性和环境健康素养。雷达 研究挑战并扩展了当前的环境健康科学范式，通过与 地质学家和整合他们的科学方法。我们将影响社会对高肺的关注 癌症发生率：1)利用地球科学和新的氡气进行氡探测和报告 探测技术；2)开发图书馆借阅方法，以增加氡检测；3)支持 通过创建和维持公民科学领导的氡联盟来采取环境行动，这些联盟共享新的 知识，并让健康倡导者、氡缓解专业人员、政策制定者、建筑商和 开发商推动改善肯塔基州农村地区的氡管理。

ABSTRACT Kentucky's high radon potential and high smoking rates create the perfect storm for the overrepresentation of lung cancer cases. Our transdisciplinary, community-academic team-led project, Radon on the RADAR (Residents Acting to Detect and Alleviate Radon) will address community concerns about lung cancer by identifying geological and atmospheric conditions that increase radon intrusion into homes, translating this knowledge into greater residential awareness of risk, enabling home radon testing and report back, and growing access to affordable and adequate radon mitigation. We will team geologists with citizen scientists to determine how new radon detection technology (i.e., Airthings) compares to traditional charcoal kits and outdoor soil radon measurements over a range of atmospheric and geological conditions to close a critical knowledge gap in our understanding of radon risk. The study will build capacity in environmental health by: (a) training citizens in rigorous data collection and interpretation of findings; (b) engaging these citizen scientists in creating and promoting library loan programs to increase radon testing; and (c) creating sustainable environmental health action plans to alleviate radon exposure in rural communities. Our overall hypothesis is that by increasing knowledge on how geological and atmospheric conditions can impact radon, partnering with citizen scientists to use new radon detection technology and translate the data, and by growing access to low-cost radon mitigation, we will reduce radon risk. Aim 1 will use a citizen science approach to identify and train 60 community residents in four KY counties to test for radon and evaluate change in environmental health literacy (EHL) and self-efficacy. Aim 2 will compare indoor home radon values and soil radon values over time, controlling for atmospheric conditions, seasonality, geology, topography, and smoking in the home. Aim 3 will create and evaluate a pilot radon detector library loan program with 400 homeowners in the four counties. Aim 4 will launch the radon detector loan program and examine changes in home testing and accessing geologically based radon potential maps. Aim 5 will examine the impact of citizen scientist-led radon coalitions on reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance, and environmental health literacy. The RADAR study challenges and expands the current environmental health science paradigm by collaborating with geologists and integrating their scientific approach. We will impact community concerns about high lung cancer rates by: 1) transforming radon detection and report back using geoscience and new radon gas detection technology; 2) developing a library-lending approach to increase radon testing; and 3) supporting environmental action by creating and sustaining citizen science-led radon coalitions that share new knowledge and engage health advocates, radon mitigation professionals, policymakers, builders, and developers to promote improved radon management in rural Kentucky.