Housing and Asthma

With asthma on the rise, this book outlines the improvement of existing housing, along with some generic design principles aimed at providing healthy air change rates and suppressing indoor humidity and dust mite activity.

Stirling Howieson

Introduction  1. The Aetiology of Asthma  2. The Ecology and Physiology of the House Dust Mite (HDM)  3. The Indoor Environment and the House Dust Mite  4. Housing and Health  5. Historical Changes in Domestic Ventilation Regimes  6. Designing a Double Blind Placebo Controlled Interventionist Trial  7. Key Findings and Discussion  8. Scoping the Confounding Variables  9. Hazardous Indoor Pollutants  10. Air Tightness and Ventilation Rates  11. Developing a New Low Allergen Prototype Dwelling  12. A Fiscal Strategy  13. Conclusions and Recommendations