Mobile Phones

Follow the links below to find information on health and safety issues for using mobile phones.

Updated September 2008

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Title:   ARPANSA - Mobile telephones and health effects
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   There is no clear evidence in the existing scientific literature that the use of mobile telephones poses a long-term public health hazard.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Mobile phones
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   People of all ages are really into using mobile phones. People use them for work, to keep in touch with family and friends or for keeping themselves safe. Before you start out as a mobile phone user you need to do some research and check out the options.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Mobile phones
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   It wasn't too long ago that mobile phones were rare. Now it seems most people carry one. Mobiles keep people connected, provide entertainment, and can be used for keeping organised and saving money. However, mobiles can also create big debt problems.
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   ARPANSA - Levels of radiofrequency radiation from GSM mobile telephone base stations
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   This report presents field survey measurements data and provides information on the levels of RF radiation to which members of the public may be exposed from phone base stations (transmitter towers).
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   ARPANSA - Mobile telephones scientific background
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   There is no clear evidence in the existing scientific literature that the use of mobile telephones poses a long-term public health hazard.
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   ARPANSA - Are mobile telephone communication antennas a health hazard?
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   No adverse health effects are expected from continuous exposure to the radio-frequency radiation emitted by the antennas on mobile telephone base station towers.
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   Mobile phones and your health
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   International research has found no conclusive evidence that mobile phones are damaging to health in the short or long term. On the other hand, there are still unanswered questions regarding their safety.
Date:   Apr 2007
Title:   ARPANSA - Prediction methodologies for radiated electromagnetic energy (EME) exposure levels from mobile phone base station antennas
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   Radiated fields from cellular telephone base stations must comply with safety limits imposed by the Australian Communications Authority. In many cases this includes the preparation of an ARPANSA Environmental EME Report.
Date:   Oct 2006
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