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Indoor Air Pollution: A Public Health Perspective
Author(s) -
Samet Jonathan M.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
indoor air
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.387
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1600-0668
pISSN - 0905-6947
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0668.1993.00002.x
Subject(s) - indoor air quality , environmental health , public health , air pollution , air quality index , pollutant , environmental planning , environmental science , air pollutants , indoor air , pollution , scope (computer science) , population , business , environmental engineering , medicine , geography , computer science , meteorology , ecology , nursing , biology , chemistry , organic chemistry , programming language
In developed and developing countries, indoor air pollutionis gaining increasing prominence as a public health problem. Time‐activity studies and exposure surveys have shown the dominant contributions of indoor environments to population exposures for many pollutants. Mounting epidemiological evidence documents adverse health effects of indoor pollutants and risk assessments indicate that indoor carcinogens may contribute substantially to the population's burden of lung and other cancers. Unacceptable indoor air quality has also been identified as a common cause of symptoms. This paper addresses the public health problem posed by indoor air pollution, offering a schema for categorizing adverse health effects of indoor air pollution, and considers the complexiry of estimating the full scope of the problem