The environmental impact of transport is evident in urban air quality.
Urbanization brings with it many changes including the nature of the pollution.
Each city will have a crucial role to play in minimizing activities that
contribute to the destruction of the ozone layer and global warming. The
environmental sustainability of cities requires an outside look, but
fundamentally an inner attitude in the management of change processes.
Air pollution is a health problem with consequences in
the long term. The growing concerns about energy savings, led to the need to
reduce infiltration, in order to reduce energy consumption in air conditioning.
This decrease, coupled with the entry of new materials and construction
techniques, was making buildings more airtight, thus contributing to the
reduction of energy losses, however, leads to problems in indoor air quality
when the means of ventilation is not are suitable. This study sought to
evaluate the season autumn / winter and spring / summer the association between
indoor air quality in schools located in different places of the city of
Coimbra and the prevalence of allergic respiratory disease in school children.
The results reinforce the interest of exposure to air pollutants in children
attending schools situated in urban or predominantly urban mildly, for
attending schools situated in predominantly rural.
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