WHO Umweltkongress Abou Dhabi / SBS

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Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) und das World Health Organization's Regional Centre for Environmental Health Activities (WHO/CEHA)veranstalten im Moment in Abou Dhabi einen internationalen Umweltkongress.

Sick Building kam auch dabei zur Sprache

...On the conference third day Healthy Homes: Environmental Hazards and Prevention Strategies was the title of the first session. Dr. Eileen McNeely form Harvard School of Public Health said in her presentation that a by-product of the 1970's energy crisis that focused interest in reducing ventilation rates and increasing insulation was the increase in hazards in the home. By the 1980s, problems with formaldehyde, nitrogen dioxide, asbestos, radon, second hand tobacco smoke emerged as indoor pollution problems and large-scale studies demonstrated that building design, ventilation, material selections, and operations could influence the health of occupants. Sick Building Syndrome emerged as a complex of symptoms related to certain building conditions...

Environmental Health Conference discusses more topics on environmental health threats
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