In search of a common European approach to a healthy indoor environment

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 983-988

  Adan, Olaf C G ^a,b   Ng A Tham, Julie ^c   Hanke, Wojtek ^d   Sigsgaard, Torben ^e   van den Hazel, Peter ^f   Wu, Felicia ^g  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b Ministry of Housing Spatial Planning and the Environment DG Environment ^*  (Netherlands)

^c Ministry of Housing Spatial Planning and the Environment Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^d NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f Public Health Services Gelderland Midden   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

European Union; Fragmentation; Health; Indoor environment; Open coordination; Policy; Subsidiarity

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; ILLUMINATION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HOUSING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 34250380429     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8991     Document Type: Article

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