Evaluation of health benefits for improving indoor air quality in workplace

Chi Kwan Chau, W. K. Hui, M. S. Tse

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Abstract

In contrast to a majority of reported damage-cost literature being focused on outdoor pollution, this paper describes the development of a protocol that links population exposure data with reported epidemiological concentration-response coefficients. A change in indoor particulate level is expressed as a change in total exposure levels, which is then linked with a corresponding change in ambient particulate concentrations before evaluating the associated health benefits. In this study, the development of protocol is illustrated by using a typical office building environment and daily time activity patterns of office occupants in Hong Kong. Our results indicate that some benefit gains for the owners-employers and the society would be anticipated if certain filter set configurations had been adopted. However, the amount of benefit gains for the owners-employers is shown to be increased with the average salary level of employees and the duration of their stay in offices.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)186-198
Number of pages13
JournalEnvironment international
Volume33
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2007

Keywords

  • Economic valuation
  • Exposures
  • Indoor air quality
  • Offices
  • Time activity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Environmental Science(all)

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