Indoor Environmental Quality and Health Risk toward Healthier Environment for All, 1st ed. 2020
Current Topics in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine Series

Coordinators: Kishi Reiko, Norbäck Dan, Araki Atsuko

Language: English
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This volume discusses the effects of indoor air environment and pollution in modern buildings on human health. Highlighting epidemiological studies and the determining factors, it offers proposals for improving indoor air quality (IAQ) in different environments. Focusing not only on homes and offices, but also vehicles and aircrafts, it details practical methods of measuring and assessing indoor air quality. 

Written by pioneering researchers, Indoor Environmental Quality and Health Risk toward Healthier Environment for All is a valuable resource for both new and established researchers as well as students seeking a comprehensive overview of the facts on indoor air quality and health. Also is also of interest to hygiene experts in industry, occupational health and safety professionals, governmental public health sectors and school physicians.


Part-1: Epidemiological studies on indoor air quality and health
1. Importance of Indoor Environmental Quality on Human Health toward Achievement of the SDGs
2. Homes-1 Sick Building/House Syndrome
3. Homes-2 Associations with Home Environment for Asthma, Rhinitis and Dermatitis
4. Offices
5. The indoor environment in schools, kindergartens and day care centres
6. In-vehicle exposures at transportation and the health concerns
Part-2: Factors determing Indoor Air Qualities and their health impacts
7. Aldehydes, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and health
8. Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds (SVOCs): Phthalates and phosphorous frame retardants and health risks
9. Microbial agents in the indoor environment- associations with health
10. Dampness, indoor mould and health
11. Particles Matter, Nitrogen dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide
12. Combustion and Cookstoves
13. Indoor thermal environment and cardiovascular diseases
Part-3: Provision for improving indoor environment quality
14. Housing performance and equipment for healthy indoor environment
15. Sick building syndrome (SBS), personality, psychosocial factors and treatment
16. Guidelines and Regulations for Indoor Environmental Quality
17. Future directions of research on indoor environment, indoor air quality (IAQ) and health



Reiko Kishi
Hokkaido University, Center for Environmental and Health Sciences, 

Dan Norback
Uppsala University, Department of Medical Sciences, Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Atsuko Araki
Hokkaido University, Center for Environmental and Health Sciences,

Discusses the effects of indoor air environment and pollution in modern buildings on human health, focusing on epidemiological studies

Offers details of practical methods of measuring and assessing indoor air quality

Provides a valuable resource for both new and established researchers as well as students seeking a comprehensive overview of the facts on indoor air quality and health