Urban Health: Assessment of Indoor Environment Spillovers on Health in a Distressed Urban Area of Rome
| Autor: | Maurizio Marceca, Livia Calcagni, Silvia Iorio, Miriam Errigo, A Angelozzi, Alessandra Battisti, Alberto Calenzo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Economic growth
media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development TJ807-830 social determinants Context (language use) 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Urban area Health outcomes TD194-195 01 natural sciences indoor health Renewable energy sources 03 medical and health sciences spatial segregation 0302 clinical medicine Multidisciplinary approach Quality (business) GE1-350 030212 general & internal medicine Social determinants of health 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common geography geography.geographical_feature_category Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Overcrowding indoor environmental quality (IEQ) multidisciplinary approach regeneration strategies Environmental sciences Business Urban health |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 10 Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 5760, p 5760 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su13105760 |
| Popis: | It is notable that indoor environment quality plays a crucial role in guaranteeing health, especially if we consider that people spend more than 90% of their time indoors, a percentage that increases for people on low income. This role assumes even further significance when dealing with distressed urban areas, vulnerable areas within cities that suffer from multiple deprivations. The community-based interdisciplinary research-action group of the University La Sapienza focused on a complex in the outskirts of Rome. The aim was to assess the correlations between architectural aspects of the indoor environment, socio-economic conditions, such as lifestyles and housing conditions, and eventually health outcomes. The intent of providing a comparative methodology in a context where official data is hard to find, led to the integration of social, health, and housing questionnaires with various environmental software simulations. What emerged is that underprivileged housing conditions, characterized by mold, humidity, unhealthiness, thermohygrometric discomfort, architectural barriers, and overcrowding, are often associated with recurrent pathologies linked to arthritis, respiratory diseases, and domestic accidents. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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