Indoor Air Pollution - A Health Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan M. Samet, M.D., is professor of medicine at the University of New Mexico. John D. Spengler, Ph.D., M.S. , is professor of environmental health at the Harvard University School ofPublic Health. Klappentext During the last two decades, outdoor air pollution has decreased in the United States and in many other industrial nations. But many hazardous pollutants have been found in offices, cars, homes, and hospitals. Outbreaks of illness related to the noninjdustrial work environment have been reported with increasing frequency. And "sick-building," or "tight-building," syndrome has been recognized as a new and serious threat to public health. Indoor Air Pollution: A Health Perspective outlines current research on the subject and examines effotrs to regulate the quality of indoor air. Contributors--including epidemiologists, clinicians, risk assessorsm experts in air monitoring, microbiologies, and engineers--discuss methodologies used in measuring exposures to pollution, strategies for imporving indoor air quality, and other issues. They also assess the health effects of specific pollutants: tobacco smoke, carbon monoxide, wood smoke, nitrogen dioxide, biological agents, formaldehyde, and radon.

Product details

• Authors: Samet, Jonathan M. Samet, Jonathan M. (Dean and Professor Samet, Jonathan M. (Professor and Flora L. Thornto Samet
• Assisted by: Jonathan M. Samet (Editor), Samet Jonathan M. (Editor), John D. Spengler (Editor), Spengler John D. (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.07.1991
• EAN: 9780801841255
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4125-5
• No. of pages: 424
• Series: Johns Hopkins Series in Enviro; Johns Hopkins Series in Enviro; The Johns Hopkins Environmenta; The Johns Hopkins Series in Environmental Toxicology
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Health & Safety, Pollution & threats to the environment, Pollution and threats to the environment, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Health & safety issues, Health and safety in the workplace