HITEA
"Health Effects of Indoor Pollutants: Integrating microbial, toxicological and epidemiological approaches"
| Coordinatore | TERVEYDEN JA HYVINVOINNIN LAITOS
Organization address
address: MANNERHEIMINTIE 166 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Finland [FI] |
| Totale costo | 3˙608˙037 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙753˙694 € |
| Programma | FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) |
| Code Call | FP7-ENV-2007-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
| Anno di inizio | 2008 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2008-04-01 - 2013-03-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
TERVEYDEN JA HYVINVOINNIN LAITOS
Organization address
address: MANNERHEIMINTIE 166 contact info |
FI (HELSINKI) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
Nome Ente NON disponibile
Organization address
address: YLIOPISTONRANTA 1 E contact info |
FI (Kuopio) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
FUNDACIO CENTRE DE RECERCA EN EPIDEMIOLOGIA AMBIENTAL - CREAL
Organization address
address: Calle Doctor Aiguader 88 contact info |
ES (BARCELONA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT GMBH
Organization address
address: Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1 contact info |
DE (MUENCHEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Organization address
address: SOUTH KENSINGTON CAMPUS EXHIBITION ROAD contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
LUNDS UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: Paradisgatan 5c contact info |
SE (LUND) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN
Organization address
address: Gregor Mendel Strasse 33 contact info |
AT (WIEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Organization address
address: Heidelberglaan 8 contact info |
NL (UTRECHT) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Healthy housing and good indoor air quality are important goals of public health. However, biological indoor pollution due to dampness, moisture and mold is an emerging environmental health issue, as recognized in EU indoor air policy documents. Prevalence of dampness is remarkable, and may still increase due to demands of energy savings and extreme weather periods and floods associated with climate change. The exposure may lead to long-term impacts such as asthma. The documentation is strong on association between building mold and health, but the causative agents and disease mechanisms are largely unknown, which impedes recognition of a mold-affected patient in health care. Efficient control and regulation are hampered by the insufficient understanding of these causalities. Understanding of the links between building practices and health is lacking. There is an urgent need for European-wide knowledge to form a basis for establishing building-associated criteria for healthy indoor environments. The aim of this proposal is to clarify the health impacts of indoor exposures on children and adults by providing comprehensive exposure data on biological and chemical factors in European indoor environments, and by combining this information with extensive health data obtained from a field study and from existing population cohorts. Modern microbiological, toxicological and immunological techniques will be used that allow the revealing of the links between the harmful exposures and long term impacts on health, and the mechanisms behind. Data on determinants and distributions of indoor microbial agents will be provided for development of avoidance measures and other dissemination for stakeholders. The study networks experts on environmental epidemiology, microbiology, immunology, toxicology and building sciences. They cover the multidisciplinary field needed for adequate risk assessment. This approach has been successfully applied in the previous research.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Improvement of the indoor air quality is among the key targeted actions of the European Environmental Health Action Plan (EHAP). To aid the generation of a risk assessment framework, a European survey generated important information on the association between indoor environmental quality and occupant health.