Environment and Health in Children Day Care Centres

• Autor(a) principal: Neuparth, Nuno
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Papoila, Ana Luísa, Aelenei, Daniel, Cano, Manuela, Paixão, Paulo, Viegas, João, Martins, Pedro, Araújo Martins, José, Leiria Pinto, Paula, Caires, Iolanda, Pedro, Catarina, Nogueira, Susana, Mendes, Ana, Aguiar, Fátima, Teixeira, João Paulo, Proença, Carmo, Piedade, Cátia, Santos, Madalena, Silvestre, Maria José, Brum, Laura, Nunes, Baltazar, Guiomar, Raquel, Curran, Martin D., Carvalho, Ana, Marques, Teresa, Virella, Daniel, Alves, Marta, Marques, João, Rosado-Pinto, José
• Tipo de documento: Livro
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/1894
• topic: Indoor Air Quality; Children Health; Environment; Ventilation; Viral Infections; Building Characteristics; Ar e Saúde Ocupacional

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.