Productivity and Health Effects of High Indoor Air Quality

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 688-693

  Wargocki, P ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Building costs; Building related illness; Discomfort; Economic benefits; Health; Indoor air pollution; Indoor air quality; Indoor environment; Nonindustrial environments; Offices; Performance; Productivity; Schools; Sick building syndrome; Sick leave

Indexed keywords

EID: 85069873999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52272-6.00270-1     Document Type: Chapter

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