Impacts

By helping shift the paradigm on health hazards that may be caused by indoor air quality, and focusing on determinants identification and data analytics, K-HEALTHinAIR will significantly expand the ability of policy-makers to anticipate, detect, mitigate, and manage the negative impacts of risk factors contributing to the onset of and the risk of premature deaths, especially in vulnerable groups.

The project will impact policy-makers, citizens, and society as a whole. K-HEALTHinAIR will provide sciense-based information about IAQ health risks, advanced knowledge to legislate, user-friendly tools, and cost-effective procedures for advanced IAQ monitoring.

Policy-makers and regulators will:

  • Be aware and well informed about environmental, socio-economic, and occupational risk factors as well as health-promoting factors across society.
  • Make use of the knowledge generated by K-HEALTHinAIR and shared through the open access platform to promote policies and better planning investments to favour healthier environments with a direct societal impact.

Consumers (as main users of transports, markets, canteens, etc.), building residents, workers, and professionals will

  • Find on the market new cost-effective and accurate IAQ monitoring solutions and have access to the knowledge available on how to address interventions focused on IAQ improvements for health enhancement.
  • Improve their health and well-being, even in short term, as the upstream determinants of diseases related to the main indoor air determinants will be known, understood, and reduced.
  • Have increased awareness about health risks associated with IAQ in workplaces and demand for improved regulations and more accurate measurement and control of indoor air conditions.

Vulnerable people and patients will:

  • Obtain information about health risks associated with IAQ and knowledge about recommended specific health surveillance practices and guidelines for improving IAQ in all spaces they occupy in their daily activities.
  • Receive enhanced identification and diagnosis of diseases, with a specific focus on acute effects related to IAQ, and customized measures for IAQ improvement, even considering the use of wearables to continuous monitoring of health personal parameters and IAQ in different places.

Scientific research groups will:

  • Benefit from the advances made by the project concerning the research on determinants and identification of their sources, IAQ/health relations, new sensor technology for IAQ parameters, and algorithm application and evolution.
  • Be offered procedures to use monitoring tools to expand field studies and open a new research line for microorganism sensors (Aspergillus) development.

Technology developers will:

  • Have access to accurate open access information for future development of IAQ monitoring equipment and design of customized IAQ improvements.
  • Find the main basis to link IAQ data with many other applications such as sleep/dream quality, training performance, and HAVC systems, among other.
Vision

Knowledge for improving indoor air quality and health

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