US EPA

6011099 

Journal Article 

Abstract 

Epidemiological studies for establishing hygienic limit values of indoor air in Hungary 

Rudnai, P; Farkas, I; Bácskai, JG; Kertész, M; Sárkány, E 

1991 

1 

Science of the Total Environment
ISSN: 0048-9697
EISSN: 1879-1026 

101 

1-2 

170 

English 

10.1016/0048-9697(91)90127-Z 

BCI:BCI199140124404 

The minimum requirements of a healthy home include the claim not to impose any harm on people's health. In the case of some pollutants there is a need to establish special hygienic limit values for indoor air which may differ from those already valid for outdoor air. A project has been developed in Hungary to establish hygienic limit values for indoor air by using epidemiological methods. Among the most important indoor air pollutants formaldehyde and nitrogen dioxide were the first two compounds under study. The association was studied between these concentrations or the total daily exposures calculated from these data and the changes in the health status of the examined 9 year old children. The main features and the preliminary results and conclusions as well as present status and further developments of the project will be presented. 

CONGRESSES; BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS/POISONING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; AIR POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTION; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASMS; HOMINIDAE; General Biology-Symposia; Toxicology-Environmental and Industrial Toxicology; Public Health: Environmental Health-Air; Public Health: Epidemiology-Organic Diseases and Neoplasms; 10102-44-0; 50-00-0 

Symposium on Exposure Limits for Occupational and Environmental Chemical Pollutants 

Prague, Czechoslovakia 

April 18-21, 1989