Improving indoor air quality, health and performance within environments where people live, travel, learn and work

FJ Kelly, JC Fussell - Atmospheric Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
In today's' indoor generation', most human activities take place within an enclosed space,
characterised by a chemically diverse and complex air quality. Although source control is the …

Health effects of fine particulate air pollution: lines that connect

CA Pope III, DW Dockery - Journal of the air & waste management …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Efforts to understand and mitigate the health effects of particulate matter (PM) air pollution
have a rich and interesting history. This review focuses on six substantial lines of research …

Indoor air quality and health

AP Jones - Atmospheric environment, 1999 - Elsevier
During the last two decades there has been increasing concern within the scientific
community over the effects of indoor air quality on health. Changes in building design …

Woodsmoke health effects: a review

LP Naeher, M Brauer, M Lipsett, JT Zelikoff… - Inhalation …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The sentiment that woodsmoke, being a natural substance, must be benign to humans is still
sometimes heard. It is now well established, however, that wood-burning stoves and …

Epidemiology of fine particulate air pollution and human health: biologic mechanisms and who's at risk?

CA Pope 3rd - Environmental health perspectives, 2000 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
This article briefly summarizes the epidemiology of the health effects of fine particulate air
pollution, provides an early, somewhat speculative, discussion of the contribution of …

Adverse health effects of outdoor air pollutants

L Curtis, W Rea, P Smith-Willis, E Fenyves… - Environment international, 2006 - Elsevier
Much research on the health effects of outdoor air pollution has been published in the last
decade. The goal of this review is to concisely summarize a wide range of the recent …

Near-highway pollutants in motor vehicle exhaust: a review of epidemiologic evidence of cardiac and pulmonary health risks

D Brugge, JL Durant, C Rioux - Environmental health, 2007 - Springer
There is growing evidence of a distinct set of freshly-emitted air pollutants downwind from
major highways, motorways, and freeways that include elevated levels of ultrafine …

Review of epidemiological evidence of health effects of particulate air pollution

CA Pope, DW Dockery, J Schwartz - Inhalation toxicology, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
This article summarizes epidemiological evidence of health effects of particulate air
pollution. Acute exposure to elevated levels of particulate air pollution has been associated …

Indoor allergens and asthma: report of the Third International Workshop

TAE Platts-Mills, D Vervloet, WR Thomas… - Journal of Allergy and …, 1997 - jacionline.org
In parallel with changes in lifestyle over the last 50 years (sedentary living in warm houses
with extensive furnishing and low ventilation rates), there has been a progressive increase …

Biomass fuels and respiratory diseases: a review of the evidence

C Torres-Duque, D Maldonado… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - atsjournals.org
Globally, about 50% of all households and 90% of rural households use solid fuels (coal
and biomass) as the main domestic source of energy, thus exposing approximately 50% of …