The regulations for indoor air pollution in Japan
A public health perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12598592 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenichi Azuma (0000-0002-6382-9807, National Institute of Public Health, corresponding author), Iwao Uchiyama (Kyoto University), Koichi Ikeda (National Institute of Public Health) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 301-314 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Risk Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-9877 • E-ISSN: 1466-4461 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13669870801967119 |
| OpenAlex | W2024138119 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
In recent years public health problems caused by indoor air pollution, known as ‘Sick Building Syndrome in housing’, or ‘Sick House Syndrome’ in Japan, have been drawing strong public concern. After conducting extensive exposure assessment, government authorities have taken effective measures to solve the problem. However, as a result of diversification and increase in quantities of industrial chemicals, existing regulations do not cover enough ranges of various potential hazardous chemicals. Hence, the regulations seek to be changed from hazard‐based regulation to a risk‐based one. Good indoor air quality (IAQ), which does not pose unacceptable health risks from all pollutants affecting indoor air, should be ensured for all public people. The objective of this study is to clarify the remaining issues to be solved urgently, related to the regulations to ensure a good IAQ. We reviewed enormous numbers of the existing governmental and industrial voluntary standards and/or guidelines, literature and documents concerning IAQ research in the past 40 years. Our results showed six subjects from those remaining issues. Based on these subjects we created a new scheme to control the IAQ; we especially regarded a comprehensive labeling system as one of the important strategies
Air quality index · Business · Diversification (marketing strategy · Environmental health · Environmental planning · Geography · Government (linguistics · Hazard · Hazardous waste · Indoor air quality · Public health · Sick building syndrome · Waste management · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Engineering · Environmental Science · Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure · Medicine · Environmental Engineering · Marketing
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |