Evaluation and assurance of educational habitat health by monitoring inorganic pollutants concentrations

Abstract

The educational habitat is one of the critical social infrastructures in a society, the first place for social activity and the most important indoor environment for children, besides their home. The increasing interest in indoor environmental quality of the educational habitat has been emphasized by the rising incidence of respiratory infections and allergic diseases among children, who spend a substantial part of their lives on the school premises. Scientific knowledge on the monitoring of indoor pollutants for their quantitative and qualitative identification, on the sources identification of them, and associated health risks among children are essential to the evaluation and assurance of the educational habitat health, through the adequacy and cost effectiveness of the measures for mitigating the indoor environment issues.

Keywords

• educational habitat
• health
• monitoring
• inorganic pollutants