Indoor exposure to selected air pollutants in the home environment: a systematic review

S Vardoulakis, E Giagloglou, S Steinle, A Davis… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: There is increasing awareness that the quality of the indoor environment
affects our health and well-being. Indoor air quality (IAQ) in particular has an impact on …

Indoor air quality in buildings: a comprehensive review on the factors influencing air pollution in residential and commercial structure

M Mannan, SG Al-Ghamdi - International Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Worldwide people tend to spend approximately 90% of their time in different indoor
environments. Along with the penetration of outside air pollutants, contaminants are …

Slum health: arresting COVID-19 and improving well-being in urban informal settlements

J Corburn, D Vlahov, B Mberu, L Riley, WT Caiaffa… - Journal of urban …, 2020 - Springer
The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of
COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and …

Air pollution in Delhi: its magnitude and effects on health

SA Rizwan, B Nongkynrih… - Indian Journal of …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Air pollution is responsible for many health problems in the urban areas. Of late, the air
pollution status in Delhi has undergone many changes in terms of the levels of pollutants …

Improving CO2 concentration, CO2 pollutant and occupants' thermal comfort in a residential building using genetic algorithm optimization

M Baghoolizadeh, M Rostamzadeh-Renani… - Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental air pollutants pose a serious threat to human society's health and way of life,
and their amount is rising quickly. Given that we spend the majority of our time indoors, good …

Indoor air quality in Urban India: current status, research gap, and the way forward

AK Thakur, S Patel - Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Given that people spend most of their time indoors in developed nations, personal exposure
occurring in indoor spaces dominates cumulative exposure. Therefore, the total mortality …

Indoor exposure of elderly to air pollutants in residential buildings in Alexandria, Egypt

MMM Abdel-Salam - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
This is the first study in Egypt aims to characterize the indoor air quality (IAQ) in the
residential environments to assess the elders' daily exposure to indoor air pollutants …

Enhancing indoor air quality–The air filter advantage

VK Vijayan, H Paramesh, SS Salvi, AAK Dalal - Lung India, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Air pollution has become the world's single biggest environmental health risk, linked to
around 7 million deaths in 2012 according to a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) …

Relationship between indoor and outdoor NO2: a review

Y Hu, B Zhao - Building and Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Studies have proved that outdoor nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) has adverse health effects for
people. Nowadays, most people spend much more time indoors than outdoors, and the …

Indoor air quality of low and middle income urban households in Durban, South Africa

N Jafta, L Barregard, PM Jeena, RN Naidoo - Environmental research, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction Elevated levels of indoor air pollutants may cause cardiopulmonary disease
such as lower respiratory infection, chronic obstructive lung disease and lung cancer, but the …