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Health-Based Ventilation Guidelines for Europe
Every European citizen has right to indoor air quality (IAQ) that does not endanger the health. This is implicit in the basic right to grow up and live in healthy environments. Recent EnVie project estimated in 2008 that the annual burden of disease (BoD) related to inadequate IAQ is 2 million disability adjusted life years (DALY) in EU27. Reducing this BoD is a high priority in the European health policies.
Ventilation is the key technology to control IAQ including thermal conditions and humidity, structural moisture and mould growth, extraction and dilution of emissions from indoor sources and infiltration of ambient air pollution indoors. Ensuring optimal ventilation across the Member States is a key to reduce this BoD, to improve productivity and quality of life, and to remove associated social disparities between population groups and among Member States. At the same time, it is the key to meet the objectives of European energy conservation policies for buildings (Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, EPBD).
The project will contribute to the overall strands on the European Health Strategy and by tackling key environmental health determinants it will contribute to prevention of major diseases, reduction of health inequalities and promotion of sustainable health investments at national and regional level.
It will develop health-based ventilation guidelines reconciling health and energy impacts.
More information can be found on the project web site (under construction).
This project is supported by the European Commission under the EU Health Programme 2008-13 of the EAHC (Executive Agency for Health and Consumers)
