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Health effects of indoor pollutants: integrating microbial, toxicological and epidemiological approaches
Start date:2008-04-01
End date:2013-03-31
Project Acronym:HITEA
Project status:Execution
Coordinator
| Organization name:KANSANTERVEYSLAITOS | |
| Contact person | Address |
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Name:Jaakko |
Mannerheimintie 166 HELSINKI SUOMI/FINLAND Region:MANNER-SUOMI UUSIMAA |
| Tel:+358-9-47448203 | |
| Fax:+358-9-47448225 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.ktl.fi | Organization Type: |
Description
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.
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Project Details
Start date:2008-04-01
End date:2013-03-31
Duration:60 months
Project Reference:211488
Project cost:3608037 EURO
Project Funding:2753694 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Indoor air pollution in Europe: an emerging environmental health issue
Contract type:No contract type
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Subject index:Environmental Protection, Medicine, Health
Other Indexes:asthma,impact,children cohort,health, exposure
Other participants
| Organization name:UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN | |
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Name:Christoph |
Gregor Mendel Strasse 33 WIEN ÖSTERREICH Region:OSTÖSTERREICH WIEN |
| Tel:+43-2272-66280101 | |
| Fax:+43-2272-6628077 | |
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| URL:http://www.boku.ac.at | Organization Type:Education,Other |
| Organization name:IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE | |
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Name:Julie |
Exhibition Road, South Kensington Campus LONDON UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) GREATER LONDON |
| Tel:+44-20-75946265 | |
| Fax:+44-20-75946269 | |
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| URL:http://www.imperial.ac.uk | Organization Type:Education |
| Organization name:KUOPION YLIOPISTO | |
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Name:Maija-Riitta |
YLIOPISTONRANTA KUOPIO SUOMI/FINLAND Region:MANNER-SUOMI ITÄ-SUOMI Pohjois-Savo |
| Tel:+358-17-201303 | |
| Fax:+358-17-201155 | |
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| URL:http://www.uku.fi | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN, DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT | |
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Name:Juergen |
Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1 MUENCHEN NEUHERBERG DEUTSCHLAND Region: |
| Tel:+49-89-31873022 | |
| Fax:+49-89-31872212 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.gsf.de | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT | |
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Name:Monique |
3584 CS Heidelberglaan UTRECHT NEDERLAND Region:WEST-NEDERLAND UTRECHT |
| Tel:+31-302533566 | |
| Fax:+31-302537997 | |
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| Organization name:LUNDS UNIVERSITET | |
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Name:Lennart |
PO Box 117 Paradisgatan LUND SVERIGE Region:SVERIGE SYDSVERIGE Malmöhus län |
| Tel:+46-46-177298 | |
| Fax:+46-46-189117 | |
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| URL:http://www.lu.se | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:FUNDACIO CENTRE DE RECERCA EN EPIDEMIOLOGIA AMBIENTAL - CREAL | |
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Name:Gemma |
Calle Doctor Aiguader 80 BARCELONA ESPAÑA Region:ESTE CATALUÑA Barcelona |
| Tel:+34-93-3160580 | |
| Fax:+34-93-3160575 | |
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Record control number:87924