Indoor Air Quality and Associated Disorders

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• Personal Author:
  Cullen MR ; Kreiss, Kathleen
• Description:
  Since the 1970s, office workers worldwide have frequently complained of mucus membrane irritation, fatigue, and headache when working in specific buildings, with improvements within minutes to an hour of leaving the building. This constellation of symptoms, with tight temporal association to building occupancy, is call sick building syndrome. It is the most frequent of building-associated health complaints in industrialized countries, which also include diseases caused by infection, hypersensitivity, and specific toxins. Researchers have estimated that as many and 30% of office workers report symptoms attributed to poor air quality, and workers in buildings not known to have indoor air-quality problems have many complaints attributed to the indoor work environment. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution Air Pollution, Indoor Communicable Diseases Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Fungi Occupational Health Safety Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Air-quality Air-quality-control Air-quality-measurement Air-quality-monitoring Indoor-air-pollution Indoor-environmental-quality Infectious-diseases Molds Office-workers Volatiles
• ISBN:
  9780781719544
• Publisher:
  Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  447-458
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000871
• Citation:
  Occupational health: recognizing and preventing work-related disease and injury, 4th edition. BS Levy, and DH Wegman, eds. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2000 Jan; :447-458
• Editor(s):
  Levy BS; Wegman DH
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2000
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational health: recognizing and preventing work-related disease and injury, 4th edition
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/198237/cdc_198237_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 402.19 KB ]