Abstract
Did you know that millions of people are exposed to radiation on Earth as part of their jobs or during helpful medical procedures? The branch of medicine that studies the health effects of radiation exposure on large groups of people is called radiation epidemiology. Radiation also exists in space! But how do we study the ways that radiation impacts the body in space when there are so few space travelers? In this article, we will define radiation epidemiology, give some examples of studies that evaluate how radiation on Earth effects people’s health, and explain how we use the information from studies on Earth to better understand the health effects of radiation in space.
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