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Offers resources on the environmental health effects of indoor air quality in homes and schools, including how to reduce the risks and potential effects on human health.
The new IAQ Action Kit is a practical tool that provides school boards and their stakeholders with easy applied information and activities to improve the indoor environment of schools, and to prevent and resolve indoor air quality problems.
Source: Health Canada
Poor indoor air quality may pose increased health risks for children. How can you eliminate or reduce these risks?...read more
Source: Canadian Health Network
Reduced natural ventilation, too much humidity, the use of chemicals and other factors can lead to unhealthy air in your home or workplace, causing a number of health problems such as respiratory symptoms and allergies.
Source: Health Canada
Formaldehyde is released from a variety of indoor sources, and is present at low levels in the air inside Canadian homes.
Source: Health Canada
Asbestos was a popular material used widely in construction and many other industries. If asbestos fibres are enclosed or tightly bound in a product, for example in asbestos siding or asbestos floor tiles, there are no significant health risks. Asbestos poses health risks only when fibres are present in the air that people breathe.
Source: Health Canada
This guide is intended to help families remove second-hand smoke from their homes and cars. If you are a parent who smokes, you may have heard that second-hand smoke is harmful to your family but you may not be aware of the extent of harm it could cause.
Source: Health Canada
The results of this study show that garage/house air exchange is significant and can be an entry point for pollutants from the garage and vehicles. Until the completion of modeling and data analysis, it is not possible to state whether this leakage will cause major health effects, and whether attached garages will have to be treated differently to reduce automobile pollutants from indoor air.
Source: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Health Canada's site covers ins and outs of air quality and informs you about what is being done to protect the health of Canadians, from a description of pollutants and lung diseases, to research, risk assessment and regulations development. A wide range of information on related topics and activities on both outdoor and indoor air quality.
Source: Health Canada
Reducing harmful diesel emissions and optimizing mine ventilation systems are key to improving underground working conditions, while at the same time increasing productivity and reducing the cost of mine ventilation.
Source: Natural Resources Canada
Exposure to second-hand smoke, non-smoking population aged 12 and over, 2000/01: by age group and sex, Canada; by sex, Canada, provinces, territories, health regions and peer groups.
Source: Statistics Canada
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