Indoor Environments


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Healthy Schools - Healthy Children: Improving the Indoor Environment in Ontario Schools.
May 2000
This report is part of a two phase project that aims to assess the range of indoor environmental issues facing Ontario schools. It addresses the following: the state of indoor environments in Ontario schools; current legal authority and responsibility for issues related to indoor environmental quality and children's health in schools; jurisdictional leadership (including case studies of indoor environmental programmes in schools); the economic implications of improving indoor environments in schools; a proposed framework for a voluntary indoor environmental management plan; and, recommendations for actions (58 pages).

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Achieving Healthy Indoor Environments: A Review of Canadian Options
March 2000
There is convincing evidence that indoor environments are damaging the health of people working and living in them. Increases in asthma, allergy, and multiple chemical sensitivity have all been linked to the quality of our indoor environments. The purpose of this report is to identify promising options for addressing this problem in Canada (
230 pages).

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