Modifiable Indoor Environmental Factors: Impact on Human Health and Digital Monitoring.

Abstract

Introduction. Environment and its indicators as health risk factors have been widely studied for a long time. The atmospheric air and factors polluting it are confirmed as the most important environmental factors that influence human’s health. Nevertheless, people spend up to 90% of their time indoors. Indicators of indoor environment have another origins and they can also have another scales. At the same time, these factors can be influenced easily, thus decreasing their negative impact on health. The aim of our review is to study information about impact of physical factors of indoor environment on human organism and methods of maintaining them within safe level. For analysis we chose several factors depending on their prevalence, opportunities to measure their levels and availability of the methods to correct them. Materials and methods. The search was conducted using PubMed, Google Scholar and Elibrary data bases. Fundamental literature, such as legislative act, were used. Results. Nowadays, disease prevention via elimination of risk factors influence on human health is gaining more and more attention. There are various devices that capture air indicators in houses and public buildings. Their use helps to maintain parameters within comfort level. We summarized information about the most important and wide-spread factors, their impact on health, methods for their measurement and solutions for their correction. Nevertheless, there are not enough devices which enable to monitor several important factors simultaneously. That problem leads to using different devices and each of them need calibration and technical service. Conclusion. Nowadays the impact of environmental factors on human health is widely studied and new information about this problem appears constantly. Dynamic monitoring of indicators of environmental factors is necessary for decreasing negative influence on health. An important step towards simultaneous monitoring of the most significant indoor factors is developing of technical solutions which can remove the duty to service many devices separately. These technical solutions can also propose methods for maintaining these factors within safe levels.