Housing and asthma
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Stirling Howieson
- ناشر : London ; New York : Spon Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2006
- شابک / ISBN : 9780203022504
Description
Contents Acknowledgements vi Introduction 1 1 The aetiology of allergy and asthma 7 2 The ecology and physiology of the house dust mite 25 3 The indoor environment and the house dust mite 39 4 Housing and health 49 5 Historical changes in domestic ventilation regimes 65 6 Designing a double-blind placebo-controlled interventionist trial 77 7 Key findings and discussion 91 8 Scoping the confounding variables 109 9 Hazardous indoor pollutants 127 10 Air tightness and ventilation rates 149 11 Developing a new low allergen prototype dwelling 159 12 A fiscal strategy: Fuel tax hypothecation 177 13 Conclusions and recommendations 189 Index 197
