In search of a common European approach to a healthy indoor environment.(Mini-Monograph)

From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: Adan, Olaf C.G.; Ng-A-Tham, Julie; Hanke, Wojtek; Sigsgaard, Torben; van den Hazel, Peter; Wu, Felicia | Copyright information

Increasingly, policymakers in Europe and around the world are realizing the importance of healthy indoor environments for public health. Certain member states of the European Union (EU) have already achieved successes in improving indoor environmental quality, such as controlling certain contaminants (e.g., environmental tobacco smoke) or developing nationwide policies that address indoor air generally. However, a common European approach to achieving healthy indoor environments is...

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