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Document ID (ISN)65289
CIS number 95-1891
ISSN - Serial title 0339-6517 - Documents pour le médecin du travail
Year 1994
Convention or series no. DMT 60 TC 52
Author(s) Squinazi F., Lanfranconi I., Giard A.M.
Title Comfort and health in air-conditioned buildings: Proposal for a self-administered questionnaire survey to be used by the occupational physician
Original title Confort et santé dans les bâtiments climatisés. Proposition d'un auto-questionnaire à utiliser par le médecin du travail [in French]
Bibliographic information 4th Quarter 1994, No.60, p.341-352. 36 ref.
Abstract As more and more time is spent inside air-conditioned buildings, workers expect the quality of inside air to be as good as or better than outside air. Such buildings tend increasingly to be hermetically sealed, i.e. their windows cannot be opened and forced ventilation systems are in use. A number of infectious and allergic conditions have become relatively common in such indoor environments in recent years, often under the name of sick building syndrome. The self-administered questionnaire survey presented here was developed in order to obtain information on the incidence of these conditions.
Descriptors (primary) air-conditioned premises; buildings; occupational medicine; air conditioning; microclimate; sick building syndrome
Descriptors (secondary) questionnaire survey; offices
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvinceFrance
Subject(s) Environmental pollution
Broad subject area(s) Biological hazards
Browse category(ies) Heating and air conditioning
Sick building syndrome