TY - CHAP AU - M.D. Larranaga AU - Enusha Karunasena AU - H.W. Holder AU - Eric D. Althouse AU - David Straus ED - Nicolas Mazzeo Y1 - 2011-07-27 PY - 2011 T1 - An Exposure Model for Identifying Health Risk due to Environmental Microbial Contamination in the Healthcare Setting N2 - The atmosphere may be our most precious resource. Accordingly, the balance between its use and protection is a high priority for our civilization. While many of us would consider air pollution to be an issue that the modern world has resolved to a greater extent, it still appears to have considerable influence on the global environment. In many countries with ambitious economic growth targets the acceptable levels of air pollution have been transgressed. Serious respiratory disease related problems have been identified with both indoor and outdoor pollution throughout the world. The 25 chapters of this book deal with several air pollution issues grouped into the following sections: a) air pollution chemistry; b) air pollutant emission control; c) radioactive pollution and d) indoor air quality. BT - Chemistry, Emission Control, Radioactive Pollution and Indoor Air Quality SP - Ch. 13 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/28327 DO - 10.5772/28327 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -