Open AccessAdverse health effects of occupational exposure to radiofrequency radiation in airport surveillance radar operators
Author(s) -
Naser Dehghan,
Shahram Taeb
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine/the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3670
pISSN - 0973-2284
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5278.116365
Subject(s) - audiology , anxiety , radar , feeling , medicine , memory span , depression (economics) , mental health , distress , psychology , psychiatry , working memory , clinical psychology , cognition , engineering , telecommunications , social psychology , macroeconomics , economics
Radar workers are exposed to pulsed high frequency electromagnetic fields. In this study, health effects of these radiations in personnel who routinely work with radar systems are investigated.