Indoor Air Quality and Health

Cincinelli, Alessandra; Martellini, Tania

doi:10.3390/ijerph14111286

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“…Indoor air quality (IAQ) has received increasing attention from environmental regulators concerned with improving the comfort, health, and wellbeing of building occupants [ 1 ]. For many, the health risks from exposure to indoor air pollution may be greater than those related to outdoor pollution because people spend about 80–90% of their day in indoor environments, of which ~25% is spent at work [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ].…”

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Indoor Air Quality and Potential Health Risk Impacts of Exposure to Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in an Office Rooms in Southern Poland

Brągoszewska

Biedroń

2018

IJERPH

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The aims of this article are to characterize: the quantity of culturable bacterial aerosol (QCBA) and the quality of culturable bacterial aerosol (QlCBA) in an office building in Southern Poland during the spring. The average concentration of culturable bacterial aerosol (CCBA) in this building ranged from 424 CFU m−3 to 821 CFU m−3, below Polish proposals for threshold limit values. Size distributions were unimodal, with a peak of particle bacterial aerodynamic diameters less than 3.3 μm, increasing potentially adverse health effects due to their inhalation. The spring office exposure dose (SPED) of bacterial aerosol was estimated. The highest value of SPED was in April (218 CFU kg−1), whereas the lowest was in June (113 CFU kg−1). Analysis was undertaken to determine the antibiotic resistance of isolated strains and their ability to form biofilms, which may facilitate the spread of antibiotic resistance genes. In the course of the study, it was found that Staphylococcus xylosus had the greatest ability to form biofilms, while the strains with the highest antibiotic resistance were Micrococcus luteus D and Macrococcus equipercicus. Given that mainly antibiotic-sensitive bacteria from bioaerosol were isolated, which transfers resistance genes to their plasmids, this shows the need for increased monitoring of indoor air quality in workplaces.

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Indoor Air Quality and Potential Health Risk Impacts of Exposure to Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in an Office Rooms in Southern Poland

Brągoszewska

Biedroń

2018

IJERPH

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“…(Poulhet et al 2014;Maré et al 2016;Baurès et al 2018;Militello-Hourigan and Miller, 2018). Most people spend more than 90% of their time in confined spaces (Cincinelli and Martellini 2017). IAQ has therefore an important impact on health and quality of life.…”

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VOC and carbonyl compound emissions of a fiberboard resulting from a coriander biorefinery: comparison with two commercial wood-based building materials

Simon

Uitterhaegen

Robillard

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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lndoor air quality is a major public health issue. lt is related to the choice of construction materials and associated with VOC emissions. Two wood-based commercial panels were tested: a medium-density fiberboard (MDF) and a chipboard (CH), and they were compared to a material produced from a coriander biorefinery (COR). Indicators chosen to compare the materials were physical properties (density, bending properties, surface hardness, thickness swelling, and water absorption) and VOC ernissions. Emissions were evaluated in an environmental chamber at 23 °C, 31 °C, and 36 °C, and during 28 days. Carbonyl ernissions on day 1 at 23 °C were 74, 146, and 35 µg m 2 h 1 , respectively, for MDF, CH, and COR Tetpenic ernissions were 12, 185, and 37 µg m 2 h 1 , respectively. Higher temperature resulted in higher ernissions which decreased over time, except for formalde hyde. VOC ernissions depended Iargely on material and temperature. Formaldehyde ernission was 300 to 600 times lower for coriander boards (< 0.2 µg m 2 h 1), making them significantly more environmentally friendly materials in comparison with MDF and chipboard. These results highlight the interest of coriander by-products as raw materials for producing fiberboards with low impact on indoor air quality.

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“…Air pollutants originate from various sources, such as industry, transportation, and households. There is evidence demonstrating that exposure to air pollutants may increase the risk of diseases such as lung cancer and respiratory illnesses [2][3][4].…”

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Environmental Health Surveillance System for a Population Using Advanced Exposure Assessment

Yang

Park

Cho

et al. 2020

Toxics

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Human exposure to air pollution is a major public health concern. Environmental policymakers have been implementing various strategies to reduce exposure, including the 10th-day-no-driving system. To assess exposure of an entire population of a community in a highly polluted area, pollutant concentrations in microenvironments and population time–activity patterns are required. To date, population exposure to air pollutants has been assessed using air monitoring data from fixed atmospheric monitoring stations, atmospheric dispersion modeling, or spatial interpolation techniques for pollutant concentrations. This is coupled with census data, administrative registers, and data on the patterns of the time-based activities at the individual scale. Recent technologies such as sensors, the Internet of Things (IoT), communications technology, and artificial intelligence enable the accurate evaluation of air pollution exposure for a population in an environmental health context. In this study, the latest trends in published papers on the assessment of population exposure to air pollution were reviewed. Subsequently, this study proposes a methodology that will enable policymakers to develop an environmental health surveillance system that evaluates the distribution of air pollution exposure for a population within a target area and establish countermeasures based on advanced exposure assessment.

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Indoor Air Quality and Health

Abstract: In the last few decades, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) has received increasing attention from the international scientific community, political institutions, and environmental governances for improving the comfort, health, and wellbeing of building occupants.[...]

Cited by 309 publications

References 22 publications

Indoor Air Quality and Potential Health Risk Impacts of Exposure to Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in an Office Rooms in Southern Poland

Indoor Air Quality and Potential Health Risk Impacts of Exposure to Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in an Office Rooms in Southern Poland

VOC and carbonyl compound emissions of a fiberboard resulting from a coriander biorefinery: comparison with two commercial wood-based building materials

Environmental Health Surveillance System for a Population Using Advanced Exposure Assessment

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