Report of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Healthy Indoor Environment : January 12-13, 2005, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Government document

Contributor:

United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General

Conference Name:

Surgeon General's Workshop on Healthy Indoor Environment (2005 : National Institutes of Health) http://viaf.org/viaf/130578487

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indoor air quality--Congresses.

Indoor air quality.

Environmentally induced diseases--Congresses.

Environmentally induced diseases.

Air Pollution, Indoor--adverse effects.

Environmental Illness.

Medical Subjects:

Air Pollution, Indoor--adverse effects.

Environmental Illness.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Rockville, Md.?] : U.S. Public Health Service, Dept. of Health and Human Services, [2005?]

Summary:

The 2005 workshop was conducted to: 1. Enhance understanding of the public health consequences of the non-industrial indoor environment (e.g., homes, schools, office buildings); 2. Provide information to the U.S. Surgeon General, the public, the medical community, and the public health community; and 3. Provide the building design, construction, and ownership community with a better understanding of public health issues as they relate to the indoor environment. The stated goals and objectives of the workshop were to: 1. Seek collaboration throughout the public health community in reducing indoor environmentally related communicable respiratory infections, asthma, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and allergic diseases; and 2. Gain a better understanding of public health issues and research needs on this topic.

Notes:

Title from PDF title page.

OCLC:

303658024