• 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