Health implications of alternative potential ventilation guidelines
Everyone has a right to safe living environment, including indoor air quality (IAQ) that does
not endanger the health. Nevertheless the recent European EnVie project estimated that the
annual burden of disease (BoD) related to inadequate IAQ is 2 million disability adjusted life
years (DALY) in EU27 in 2008. Reducing this BoD is a high priority in the European health
policies. Ventilation is the key technology to control IAQ including thermal conditions and
humidity, structural moisture and mould growth, extraction and dilution of emissions from
indoor sources and infiltration of ambient air pollution indoors.
HEALTHVENT project is developing European ventilation guidelines to protect health. The
current paper presents the modelling approaches developed as part of the project to estimate
the impact of the proposed guidelines on the burden of disease. The results highlight the dual
role of ventilation in diluting indoor generated pollutants while at same time introducing
outdoor air pollution indoors.
HANNINEN Otto;
ASIKAINEN Arja;
BISCHOF Wolfgang;
HARTMANN Thomas;
CARRER Paolo;
SEPPANEN Olli;
DE OLIVEIRA FERNANDES Eduardo;
LEAL Vitor;
MALVIK Bjarne;
KEPHALOPOULOS Stylianos;
BRAUBACH Matthias;
WARGOCKI Pawel;
2013-01-21
Queensland University of Technology
JRC71017
978-1-921897-40-5,
www.hb2012.org,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC71017,
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