sources of indoor air pollution and respiratory health in preschool children室内空气污染的来源和学龄前儿童呼吸系统健康.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Environmental and Public Health Volume 2009, Article ID 727516, 19 pages doi:10.1155/2009/727516 Review Article Sources of Indoor Air Pollution and Respiratory Health in Preschool Children 1, 2 1, 2 ´ ´ 2, 3 Virginia Fuentes-Leonarte, Ferran Ballester, and Jose Maria Tenıas 1 Department of Health and Environment, Centre for Public Health Research (CSISP), 46020 Valencia, Spain 2 CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), 8003 Barcelona, Spain 3 Research Support Unit, Hospital La Mancha Centro, 13600 Alcazar de San Juan, Spain ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Ferran Ballester, ballester fer@gva.es Received 25 August 2009; Accepted 2 November 2009 Recommended by David O. Carpenter We carried out bibliographic searches in PubMed and E for the period from 1996 to 2008 with the aim of reviewing the scientific literature on the relationship between various sources of indoor air pollution and the respiratory health of children under the age of five. Those studies that included adjusted correlation measurements for the most important confounding variables and which had an adequate population size were considered to be more relevant. The results concerning the relationship between gas energy sources and children’s respiratory health were heterogeneous. Indoor air pollution from biomass combustion in the poorest countries was found to be an important risk factor for lower respiratory tract infections. Solvents involved in redecorating, DYI work, painting, and so forth, were found to be related to an increased risk for general respiratory