Azuma Kenichi
Department of Environmental Medicine and Behavioral Science, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine.
Nihon Eiseigaku Zasshi. 2018;73(2):143-146. doi: 10.1265/jjh.73.143.
After the 1990s, many effective measures were taken to improve indoor air pollution in Japan. However, as a result of major changes in building materials, consumer products, and lifestyle, and new scientific findings on health effects associated with indoor environmental pollution, new issues have been indicated, such as chemical pollutants in indoor dusts or indoor pollutants caused by new chemicals that were substituted from chemicals that Indoor Air Quality Guideline was set. On the other hand, scientific evidence for the links between housing environment and health has accumulated substantially in recent decades. Therefore, the World Health Organization (WHO) is developing Housing and Health Guidelines to provide policymakers with recommendations on healthy housing conditions such as thermal comfort, indoor air pollution, crowding, and home injuries. In this paper, the basic principles of healthy housing, the current status of Japanese dwellings, and the recent approaches of WHO are summarized.
20世纪90年代后，日本采取了许多有效措施来改善室内空气污染。然而，由于建筑材料、消费品和生活方式的重大变化，以及与室内环境污染相关的健康影响方面的新科学发现，出现了新的问题，例如室内灰尘中的化学污染物或由从制定室内空气质量指南时所涉及的化学物质替代而来的新化学物质所导致的室内污染物。另一方面，近几十年来，住房环境与健康之间联系的科学证据大量积累。因此，世界卫生组织（WHO）正在制定住房与健康指南，以便就热舒适度、室内空气污染、拥挤状况和家庭伤害等健康住房条件向政策制定者提供建议。本文总结了健康住房的基本原则、日本住宅的现状以及WHO最近的方法。
