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Author Howieson, Stirling.

Title Housing and asthma / Stirling Howieson
Published London ; New York : Spon Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations
Contents Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The aetiology of allergy and asthma; Chapter 2 The ecology and physiology of the house dust mite; Chapter 3 The indoor environment and the house dust mite; Chapter 4 Housing and health; Chapter 5 Historical changes in domestic ventilation regimes; Chapter 6 Designing a double-blind placebo-controlled interventionist trial; Chapter 7 Key findings and discussion; Chapter 8 Scoping the confounding variables; Chapter 9 Hazardous indoor pollutants
Summary This book outlines the remediation of existing housing stock, along with some generic design principles aimed at providing 'healthy' air change rates and suppressing indoor humidity and dust mite activity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Asthma -- Great Britain
House dust mites.
Asthma -- etiology
Air Pollution, Indoor -- adverse effects
Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects
Pyroglyphidae -- pathogenicity
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Asthma
House dust mites
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Subject Great Britain
Form Electronic book
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