DocumentCode
3094008
Title
The Sources and Health Impacts of Indoor Air Pollution
Author
Ying Han ; Neng Zhu ; Nan Lu ; Jing Chen ; Yan Ding
Author_Institution
Sch. of Environ. Sci. & Technol., Tianjin Univ., Tianjin, China
fYear
2010
fDate
18-20 June 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
For most people, majority of their lives are spent in an indoor environment. With the improvement of living, indoor air pollution is impacting human health. In this paper, through analysis of sources and adverse health effects of several common indoor air pollutants, air pollutants are major contributing factors to chronic diseases and mortality. It should be treated urgently with the people´s standard of living improvement. Finally, it is mentioned that some methods by controlling source, improving ventilation systems to exhaust contaminated air, and cleaning indoor air.
Keywords
air pollution; health hazards; chronic diseases; controlling source; health effects; human health; indoor air pollution; indoor air quality; indoor environment; mortality; ventilation systems; Air pollution; Building materials; Chemical products; Cleaning; Diseases; Humans; Indoor environments; Space heating; Thermal pollution; Ventilation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Chengdu
ISSN
2151-7614
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-4712-1
Electronic_ISBN
2151-7614
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5515150
Filename
5515150
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