Editors:
- Offers a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of air pollution in confined environments
- Presents information on indoor air quality in architectures for health
- Defines strategies aimed to improve the quality of hospital environments for their users
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This interdisciplinary guide offers background, research findings, and practical strategies for assessing and improving air quality in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Positing good air quality as critical to patient and staff well-being, it identifies disease-carrying microbes, pollutants, and other airborne toxins and their health risks, and provides localized interventions for reducing transmission of pathogens. Effective large-scale approaches to air quality control are also outlined, from green building materials to hygienic HVAC and air treatment practices. Its thoroughness of coverage makes this book a vital resource for professionals involved in every aspect of health service facilities, from planning and construction to maintenance and management.
Among the topics covered:- Existing guidelines in indoor air quality: the case study of hospital environments
- Hospital environments and epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections
- Analysis of microorganisms in hospital environments and potential risks
- Legionella indoor air contamination in healthcare environments
- HVAC system design in healthcare facilities and control of aerosol contaminants
- Assessment of indoor air quality in inpatient wards
Indoor Air Quality in Healthcare Facilities imparts up-to-date expertise to a variety of professional readers, including hospitals' technical and management departments, healthcare facilities' chief medical officers, hospital planners, sport and thermal building designers, public health departments, and students of universities and schools of hygiene.
Keywords
- indoor air quality (IAQ)
- environmental health
- indoor air quality in healthcare settings
- indoor air quality in hospitals
- hospital environments and nosocomial infections
- microorganisms in hospital environments
- healthy construction materials
- hygiene management
- engineering plants for air quality in hospitals
- indoor air quality in inpatient wards
- air pollution exposure
- quality of life
- air pollution in confined environments
- multidisciplinary approach in health care
- hospital quality improvement strategies
- exposure to pollutants
- healing architecture
- healthy design
- indoor air quality in healthcare facilities
- air pollution and air quality
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Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Stefano Capolongo, Marco Gola
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Department of Environment and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
Gaetano Settimo
About the editors
Gaetano Settimo, PhD, is researcher at Istituto Superiore di Sanità in the Department of the Environment and Primary Prevention in Rome, Italy.
Marco Gola is an architect and PhD candidate at Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy. He specializes in architecture for sustainability, hospital planning, and construction.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indoor Air Quality in Healthcare Facilities
Editors: Stefano Capolongo, Gaetano Settimo, Marco Gola
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49160-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49159-2Published: 30 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49160-8Published: 21 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 132
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Practice and Hospital Management, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Environmental Health