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J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2012 May-Jun;22(3):304-15. doi: 10.1038/jes.2012.13. Epub 2012 Feb 29.
This paper presents analyses of data from surveys of radio base stations in 23 countries across five continents from the year 2000 onward and includes over 173,000 individual data points. The research compared the results of the national surveys, investigated chronological trends and compared exposures by technology. The key findings from this data are that irrespective of country, the year and cellular technology, exposures to radio signals at ground level were only a small fraction of the relevant human exposure standards. Importantly, there has been no significant increase in exposure levels since the widespread introduction of 3G mobile services, which should be reassuring for policy makers and negate the need for post-installation measurements at ground level for compliance purposes. There may be areas close to antennas where compliance levels could be exceeded. Future potential work includes extending the study to additional countries, development of cumulative exposure distributions and investigating the possibility of linking exposure measurements to population statistics to assess the distribution of exposure levels relative to population percentiles.
本文对 2000 年以来来自五大洲 23 个国家的无线电基站调查数据进行了分析，其中包含超过 173000 个单独的数据点。该研究比较了各国调查的结果，调查了时间趋势，并比较了不同技术的暴露情况。这组数据的主要发现是，无论国家、年份和蜂窝技术如何，地面的无线电信号暴露水平都只是相关人体暴露标准的一小部分。重要的是，自 3G 移动服务广泛推出以来，暴露水平并没有显著增加，这应该让决策者感到放心，并消除了为符合规定而在地面进行安装后测量的需要。在天线附近可能会有一些区域的达标水平会超标。未来的潜在工作包括将研究扩展到其他国家，开发累积暴露分布，并研究将暴露测量与人口统计数据联系起来以评估相对于人口百分位数的暴露水平分布的可能性。
