Vision

K-HEALTHinAIR will increase the knowledge about the air quality parameters that affect people’s health. Currently, there is a lack of information regarding the nature of those parameters, if they exist, and how they impact and influence the health and the well-being of the population

As Goethe said, “We only see what we know”. K-HEALTHinAir will help gather this knowledge and ultimately see more than today! And it will do so by:

Carrying out two different study approaches to identify determinants of IAQ effects on health. These acute effects are mainly suffered by high-risk outpatients with some health problems and chronic effects in the short, medium, and long-term and, in principle, can affect everyone according to their conditions, population group, exposure, etc.

Studying these two parallel but complementary approaches from a holistic and comprehensive standpoint, coherently linked to the principles of the open science approach, fully embraced by K-HEALTHinAIR. 

Assuring rigorous compliance with the GDPR principles. Respecting anonymity and confidentiality, K-HEALTHinAIR will collect complementary information relevant to IAQ monitoring from multiple sources.

Developing a novel Artificial Intelligence algorithm with data acquired from hospitals’ health surveillance systems, citizen science information, urban pollution, mental health, and social and economic factors. The resulting algorithm will have the capacity to identify the potential health risks related to IAQ and the affected target groups, activities, or factors