Indoor air quality and health in schools: A critical review for developing the roadmap for the future school environment
Mälardalen University · KTH Royal Institute of Technology · +9 more institutions
Abstract
Several research studies have ranked indoor pollution among the top environmental risks to public health in recent years. Good indoor air quality is an essential component of a healthy indoor environment and significantly affects human health and well-being. Poor air quality in such environments may cause respiratory disease for millions of pupils around the globe and, in the current pandemic-dominated era, require ever more urgent actions to tackle the burden of its impacts. The poor indoor quality in such environments could result from poor management, operation, maintenance, and cleaning. Pupils are a different segment of the population from adults in many ways, and they are more exposed to the poor indoor…
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19Topics & keywords
- Indoor air quality
- Air quality index
- Productivity
- Environmental health
- Vulnerability (computing)
- Thermal comfort
- Built environment
- Population