Discounting radiation health risks for latency and population characteristics

The actual manifestation of health effects associated with chronic or low-level ionizing radiation exposures in a given human population depends on numerous factors, including the age distribution, the future life expectancy at each age, and the latency period for occurrence of the radiation-induced health effect. A complete mathematical model has been developed that is simple to manipulate and evaluate and provides an analytical tool for estimating the proper discounted health effects risks that are expected from such radiation exposures. Such information is essential when radiation effects are to be compared with other health effects risks with immediate consequences or different population factors