Influence of indoor hygrothermal conditions on human quality of life in social housing
<em>Background</em>: Modern societies spend most of their time indoors, namely at home, and the indoor environment quality turns out to be a crucial factor to health, quality of life and well-being of the residents. The present study aims to understand how indoor environment relates with...
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| author | Sara Soares Sílvia Fraga João M.P.Q. Delgado Nuno M.M. Ramos |
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| description | <em>Background</em>: Modern societies spend most of their time indoors, namely at home, and the indoor environment quality turns out to be a crucial factor to health, quality of life and well-being of the residents. The present study aims to understand how indoor environment relates with quality of life and how improving housing conditions impacts on individuals’ health. <br /><em>Design and Methods:</em> This study case will rely on the following assessments in both rehabilitated and non-rehabilitated social housing: i) field measurements, in social dwellings (namely temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, air velocity, air change rate, level of mould spores and energy consumption); ii) residents’ questionnaires on social, demogaphic, behavioural, health characteristics and quality of life. Also, iii) qualitative interviews performed with social housing residents from the rehabilitated houses, addressing the self-perception of living conditions and their influence in health status and quality of life. All the collected information will be combined and analysed in order to achieve the main objective. <br /><em>Expected impact:</em> It is expected to define a Predicted Human Life Quality (PHLQ) index, that combines physical parameters describing the indoor environment measured through engineering techniques with residents’ and neighbourhood quality of life characteristics assessed by health questionnaires. Improvement in social housing should be related with better health indicators and the new index might be an important tool contributing to enhance quality of life of the residents. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-abc09b4dfd8f4c918de0849d9269b52c2023-01-02T00:49:46ZengSAGE PublishingJournal of Public Health Research2279-90282279-90362015-11-014310.4081/jphr.2015.589127Influence of indoor hygrothermal conditions on human quality of life in social housingSara Soares0Sílvia Fraga1João M.P.Q. Delgado2Nuno M.M. Ramos3EPIUnit, Institute of Public Health, University of PortoEPIUnit, Institute of Public Health, University of PortoCONSTRUCT-LFC, Faculty of Engineering, University of PortoCONSTRUCT-LFC, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto<em>Background</em>: Modern societies spend most of their time indoors, namely at home, and the indoor environment quality turns out to be a crucial factor to health, quality of life and well-being of the residents. The present study aims to understand how indoor environment relates with quality of life and how improving housing conditions impacts on individuals’ health. <br /><em>Design and Methods:</em> This study case will rely on the following assessments in both rehabilitated and non-rehabilitated social housing: i) field measurements, in social dwellings (namely temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, air velocity, air change rate, level of mould spores and energy consumption); ii) residents’ questionnaires on social, demogaphic, behavioural, health characteristics and quality of life. Also, iii) qualitative interviews performed with social housing residents from the rehabilitated houses, addressing the self-perception of living conditions and their influence in health status and quality of life. All the collected information will be combined and analysed in order to achieve the main objective. <br /><em>Expected impact:</em> It is expected to define a Predicted Human Life Quality (PHLQ) index, that combines physical parameters describing the indoor environment measured through engineering techniques with residents’ and neighbourhood quality of life characteristics assessed by health questionnaires. Improvement in social housing should be related with better health indicators and the new index might be an important tool contributing to enhance quality of life of the residents.http://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/589Quality of lifesocial housinghygrothermal comfortindoor environment |
| spellingShingle | Sara Soares Sílvia Fraga João M.P.Q. Delgado Nuno M.M. Ramos Influence of indoor hygrothermal conditions on human quality of life in social housing Journal of Public Health Research Quality of life social housing hygrothermal comfort indoor environment |
| title | Influence of indoor hygrothermal conditions on human quality of life in social housing |
| title_full | Influence of indoor hygrothermal conditions on human quality of life in social housing |
| title_fullStr | Influence of indoor hygrothermal conditions on human quality of life in social housing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Influence of indoor hygrothermal conditions on human quality of life in social housing |
| title_short | Influence of indoor hygrothermal conditions on human quality of life in social housing |
| title_sort | influence of indoor hygrothermal conditions on human quality of life in social housing |
| topic | Quality of life social housing hygrothermal comfort indoor environment |
| url | http://www.jphres.org/index.php/jphres/article/view/589 |
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