Special Issue "Indoor Air Pollution and Control"

Dear Colleagues,

With changing production and lifestyles, more and more people spend most of their time indoors. For example, urban residents spend 90 percent of their time indoors. As a result, indoor air pollution is becoming a very important factor of public health, and observation and control of indoor air quality are getting more and more attention.

Indoor air pollution is induced by a series of complicated factors such as indoor and outdoor conditions, building characteristics, and occupant behaviors. These will further result in diverse and complex contaminants with health effects, such as formaldehyde, passive tobacco smoke, carbon monoxide, microorganisms, aeroallergens, and so on. These present great difficulties for measuring and controlling indoor air quality.

It will be much more challenging when considering health risks. Insufficient information on personal indoor behavior and mobility makes it difficult to assess the health risks associated with indoor air pollution. For example, as people are the carriers and spreaders, and, at the same time, the receptor of the virus, it is hard to assess the pattern and severity of virus exposures, and the health consequences of exposures. This makes it very hard for epidemiologic study, such as the currently globally spread COVID-19.

This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality research articles about indoor air pollution and its association with human health. Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following areas:

• Systematic indoor air quality assessing methods
• Building characteristics, special equipment, or any other methods involved in indoor air pollution control
• Influence of certain indoor air pollution associated contaminants on human health
• Interaction between outdoor and indoor air condition and its influence on indoor air quality
• Assessing health risks associated with indoor air pollution
• Indoor air pollution and epidemic disease control

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Dr. Shichao Liu
Guest Editor

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• Indoor air quality assessing
• building characteristics
• contaminants on human health
• health risk assessing
• human health
• indoor air pollution control