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This project addresses a set of common clinical problems in the context of
children attending day care centres. It is common sense that children get sick
more often as soon as they start attending a day care centre on a daily basis
and this is particularly true for some groups at risk, as wheezing infants and
wheezing pre-school children. Concerning this, some questions remain unclear:
1. The role of indoor air quality - what is the health impact of indoor air
environment (including indoor pollutants, house dust mite,
temperature and humidity) in wheezing children?
2. The role of virus infections - We don’t know the real role of virus
infections in respiratory conditions at day care centre level. There is a
lack of information concerning how indoor air environment influence
virus infections.
3. The role of building ventilation - what is the impact of building
ventilation in the health of wheezing and non-wheezing children?
How is ventilation affecting indoor air quality? How is ventilation of
day care centres affected by the structure of the buildings?
4. Social impact of this study - what should be the recommendations to
improve IAQ?
What is new in this project is the collaboration of a health team (medical
doctors and other health professionals) with environment specialists,
mechanical, civil engineers, epidemiologists and statisticians.
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Indoor Air Quality Children Health Environment Ventilation Viral Infections Building Characteristics Ar e Saúde Ocupacional
Contexto Educativo
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa/ Faculdade de Ciências Médicas