4th disease relates to indoor air quality

4th disease relates to indoor air quality
It is reported ' Reporter Chen Qing) 4% of the diseases correlate with indoor air quality. Nearly half the persons in the world are in the indoor air pollution, and a person dies because of this every 20 seconds. The economic losses that our country causes as the internal environment of the room pollute and endanger the health every year are up to 10,700 million dollars. Initiated by the education section of China's health, publicity and education center of news of Ministry of Public Health " Propagate and promote the plan in home furnishing environment of the health " The project was in formal start of Shanghai a few days ago.

Institute's environmental hygiene teaching and research chief of the office Professor Song WeiMin of the public health of Fudan University introduces, nearly 80% time spends in people's life indoors, and time when sensitive crowds such as infant and pre-school children, pregnant and parturient women, the old,weak,sick and disabled,etc. stay indoors is longer. In causing the numerous pollution sources of the indoor air pollution, the pollution of air conditioner can't be ignored. It verifies, indoor environmental pollution has already caused 35.7% of the breathing problems to study, 22% of the chronic pulmonary tuberculosis and 15% of the tracheitis, bronchitis and lung cancer.

Professor Song points out, it is the source that an air conditioner is polluted that the fin is polluted. Can detect many kinds of germs such as wax a kind of gemma bacillus, golden yellow staphylococcus, mould, legion fungus on the home air conditioner fin. Bacterium these initiate asthma many kinds of breathing problem easily very, and air conditioner duration the longer, the more application number is, the bigger the indoor personnel's density is, the more bacteria on the air conditioner are. Often clean and sterilize the air conditioner, can avoid a lot of diseases.

"However, the public has not caused the due attention to this. " One of the institute of public health of Fudan University enters an investigation to reveal, 96.2% of the home air conditioner users understand that filters the network to pollute, but 30.2% of the users dismiss hot slice of pollution only, there are prominent differences between the understanding rate of the two. This respect comes from the microbial pollution of fin of the home air conditioner in the past of our country scarcely and studies, it is propagated that relevant few too; On the other hand, the fin lies within the air conditioner, apt to be ignored by people, and then cause bacteria to hide and gather, become the hidden danger of health.

The expert reminds and says, the ones that are on the occasion of spring and summer are handed in now, many citizens begin to use the air conditioner, must clean to change according to the season the air conditioner before starting the machine for the first time, should be fixed and clean too in the course of using. Use the air conditioner not clean, will probably encourage bacteria and spread, will increase more easily infected group's infected probability, especially the children, old man and pregnant woman with worse resistance.

The education section of China's health, news publicity and education center director Mao QunAn of Ministry of Public Health introduce, " the home furnishing environment of the health is propagated to promote the plan " Will propagate through five - year long serial themes, will transmit home furnishing and health knowledge, popularize the healthy life style, dispel the potential health hidden danger, build the healthy living environment, protect the healthy development of the whole people.

4th disease relates to indoor air quality