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Tobacco smoke, indoor air pollution and tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Tobacco smoking, passive smoking, and indoor air pollution from biomass fuels have been implicated as risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) infection, disease, and death.
Ezzati, Majid, Lin, Hsien-Ho, Murray, Megan Blanche   +2 more
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Departing from standard practices: Strategic application of value engineering in the anatomy laboratory to enhance formaldehyde extraction using high‐impact, low‐cost, and low‐maintenance solutions

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 241-253, March 2025.
Abstract This study describes the process of developing a high‐impact, low‐cost, and low‐maintenance air ventilation system for anatomy facilities. It employed the strategic application of Value Engineering (VE), assuring that the air ventilation system meets contemporary threshold limit values (TLVs) for formaldehyde in the working zone of dissection ...
Jürgen Russ, Niels Hammer
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of indoor air quality and its symptoms in office building – A case study of Mashhad, Iran

Data in Brief, 2018
Air pollution sources in indoor area are one of the main factors for reducing indoor air quality of locations. In the current research, factors affecting indoor air quality and its symptoms are evaluate as case study in an office building in Mashhad ...
Zahra Atarodi, Kamaladdin Karimyan, Vinod Kumar Gupta, Morteza Abbasi, Masoud Moradi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A study on the perceived impact of indoor air pollution in a slum area of Kolkata, West Bengal

Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU, 2022
BACKGROUND: Indoor air pollution is one of the most serious environmental health concerns in today's times. OBJECTIVES: The objective is to find out the sources and health effects of indoor air pollution as well as assess the housing conditions among ...
Sinjita Dutta, Vineeta Shukla, Mausumi Basu, Meghna Mukherjee, Ankita Mishra, Ripan Saha   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characteristics of indoor/outdoor particulate pollution in urban and rural residential environment of Pakistan [PDF]

, 2009
Particulate pollution has emerged as a serious environmental health concern in Pakistan. The use of biomass fuels in traditional stoves produces high levels of indoor air pollutants. In Pakistan, 94% of rural and 58% of urban households depend on biomass
Akhtar, Albalak, Archar, Balakrishnan, Balakrishnan, Boleij, Dasgupta, Ezzati, Ezzati, Fischer, Geller, Ghauri, Götschi, Jones, Mestl, Monn, Pak-EPA, Parikh, Park, Qadir, Rumchev, Saksena, Siddiqui, Siddiqui, Smith, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, Zuk   +29 more
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Housing Warmth/Coolness and Quietness Correlate With Whole‐Brain Fractional Anisotropy in Healthy Adults

Brain Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Residential environments have been linked to brain structure, particularly in children, older adults, and clinical populations. However, little is known about how different dimensions of the housing environment relate to brain white matter microstructure in healthy adults, or whether specific environmental factors show stronger ...
Keisuke Kokubun, Kiyotaka Nemoto, Toshiharu Ikaga, Yoshinori Yamakawa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Household level of air pollution and its impact on the occurrence of Acute Respiratory Illness among children under five: secondary analysis of Demographic and Health Survey in West Africa

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background One out of ten deaths of children under five are attributable to indoor air pollution. And Acute Respiratory Illness (ARI) is among the direct causes. Objective This study showed the possibilities of characterizing indoor air pollution in West
Mouhamadou Lamine Daffe, Salimata Thiam, Fatoumata Bah, Awa Ndong, Mathilde Cabral, Cheikh Diop, Aminata Toure, Absa Lam, Mamadou Fall   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bedroom indoor air comfort : a critical analysis [PDF]

, 2009
The criteria that are currently used for the assessment of Indoor Air Quality in a residential context were developed in the ‘80s and relate to comfort during occupancy. More than half the time at home however, is spent in the bedroom. There is no strong
Janssens, Arnold, Laverge, Jelle
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An overview of indoor air quality and its impact on respiratory health among Malaysian school-aged children [PDF]

, 2014
The indoor environment is a major source of human exposure to pollutants. Some pollutants can have concentrations that are several times higher indoors than outdoors.
Choo, C. P., Jalaludin, Juliana
core   +1 more source

A Decision‐Making Model for Implementing Green Technology in Sustainable Building Projects

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Green technology (GT) adoption is pivotal for reconciling environmental stewardship with economic viability in the built environment, particularly in resource‐constrained emerging economies. However, empirical evidence on how specific GT drivers actively mitigate adoption barriers remains scarce.
Abdelazim Ibrahim, Ahmed Farouk Kineber, Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke, Mehrdad Arashpour, M. K. S. Al‐Mhdawi, Abe Abimbola Maxwell   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source