Indoor and outdoor monitoring of volatile organic compounds in school buildings: Indicators based on health risk assessment to single out critical issues

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6273-6291

  de Gennaro, Gianluigi ^a   Farella, Genoveffa ^a   Marzocca, Annalisa ^a   Mazzone, Antonio ^a   Tutino, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Indicators based on health risk assessment; Indoor air quality; Indoor outdoor plot; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

1,2,3 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; 1,4 DICHLOROBENZENE; BENZENE; CAMPHENE; DECANE; ETHYLBENZENE; HEPTANE; LIMONENE; META XYLENE; PARA XYLENE; PINENE; STYRENE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR QUALITY; BUILDING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBANIZATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DESORPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INDOOR OUTDOOR RATIO; ITALY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MIDDLE SCHOOL; OUTDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PUPIL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL; TRAFFIC; URBANIZATION;

ITALY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; ITALY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOLS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WEATHER;

EID: 84888385469     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph10126273     Document Type: Article

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