Indoor air quality and health in offices and other non-industrial working environments

Medicina del Lavoro

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 410-417

  Abbritti, G ^a,b   Muzi, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Building related illnesses; Indoor air; Office work; Sick building syndrome

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; ROLE PLAYING; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE; WORKPLACE;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; ROLE; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; TEMPERATURE; VENTILATION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 33846547960     PISSN: 00257818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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