The sick building syndrome

By S. Joshi. Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2008

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The sick building syndrome comprises of various nonspecific symptoms that occur in the occupants of a building. This feeling of ill health increases sickness absenteeism and causes a decrease in productivity of the workers. As this syndrome is increasingly becoming a major occupational hazard, the cause, management and prevention of this condition have been discussed in this article.

Subfields: Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Role of ventilation in airborne transmission of infectious agents in the built environment - a multidisciplinary systematic review. (2007, result): “For example, the studies by Elender et al. (1998), Leung et al. (2004) and Reinhard et al. (1997) on the socioeconomic factors of TB, suggested that the risk of transmission of TB is not associated with overcrowding at the district level, but associated with overcrowding at the housing units level.”
• Indoor Air Pollution, Related Human Diseases, and Recent Trends in the Control and Improvement of Indoor Air Quality (2020, background): “These effects are either localized in particular areas or widespread throughout a building [127,128].”
• Fungal volatile organic compounds: A review with emphasis on their biotechnological potential (2012, background): “…symptoms related to occupancy in moldy buildings may include fatigue, headache, dermatological symptoms, gastrointestinal tract problems, reproductive effects as well as rheumatologic and other immune diseases (Apter et al., 1994; Redlich et al., 1997; Hodgson et al., 1998; Hodgson, 2000).”