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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4712-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2151-7614
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5515150