| Autor: |
Trompetter, Bill, Davy, Perry |
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Air Quality & Climate Change. Dec2019, Vol. 53 Issue 4, p19-23. 5p. |
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The significant health impacts and costs for poor indoor air quality (IAQ) are likely to be comparable if not worse than those already demonstrated for outdoor air quality. Recent assessments have placed household air pollution as the 8th largest Global Burden of Disease risk (HEI 2018) and WHO reported that "in 2012 around 7 million people died - one in eight of total global deaths - as a result of air pollution exposure. In this paper we show that these assessments while well accepted, are based a relatively small number of IAQ studies and small sample numbers. In general, there is a lack of knowledge on the sources and personal exposures to indoor air pollutants compared to outdoors. We conclude that that exposure and health risk from poor IAQ needs to be addressed similar to that of outdoor air quality. NZ and Australia need an organisation or group of organisations to take a larger responsibility or lead on IAQ. ■ To implement or coordinate monitoring programs for homes, workplaces and public buildings to determine what other issues there are and how widespread they extend. ■ To develop policies, best practice guides, indoor air quality standards and an education program for how we live in our homes/work places and public buildings to improve our collective nation's indoor air quality and our health/productivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
GreenFILE |
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