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Moisture damage in schools - symptoms and indoor air microbes

Meklin, T., Husman, T. and Vepselainen, A.
2000
Proceedings of "Healthy Buildings 2000", 6-10 August, Espoo, Finland
moisture, schools, mould, bacteria, symptoms, fungi

Meklin, T., Husman, T. and Vepselainen, A., (2000), "Moisture damage in schools - symptoms and indoor air microbes", Proceedings of "Healthy Buildings 2000", 6-10 August, Espoo, Finland.
Abstract:
The association of moisture damages of school buildings with microbial indoor air quality and health status of school children was studied. To determine the association the school buildings (N=32) were divided into the moisture damaged (index) and non-damaged(reference) schools according to technical inspection data. Children's health surveys were made by questionnaires. Microbes were determined from indoor air of school buildings using a six-stage impactor. Children in the index schools reported more respiratory symptoms compared to children in the reference schools. No significant differences in total concentrations of airborne viable fungi between the damaged and non-damaged schools could be shown. However, some differences in microbial flora were found.

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Husman, T.
National Public Health Institute, Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Kuopio, Finland.
  1. An approach to management of critical indoor air problems in school buildings
  2. Analysis of moisture findings in the interior spaces of Finnish housing stock
  3. Characteristics of moisture damage in houses and their association with self-reported symptoms of the occupants
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  8. Indoor air microbes and respiratory symptoms of children in moisture damaged and reference schools
  9. Knowledge-based and statistically modeled relationships between residential moisture damage and occupant reported health symptoms
  10. Moisture, mold and health in apartment homes
  11. Size distributions of airborne microbes in moisture-damaged and reference school buildings of two construction types
  12. The relationship between moisture or mould observations in houses and the state of health of their occupants  
Vepselainen, A.
     


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