Our indfoor Environment, how did it get the way it is and does it affect our health? The quality of our indoor environments does indeed affect our health and risks for many diseases are increased by indoor air pollutants, surface contamination with toxins and microbes while contact among people at home, at work, in transportation, and in many other public and private indoor places is unavoidable.
Lately, shifting emphasis has led to a broadening focus on prevention but of course, first we the people must understand the scope and depth of our prevention needs. The emphasis on the built environment indicates a shift toward a more holistic approach to indoor environments and the public’s health, a shift consistent with the broadening recognition of the multiple levels of environmental factors, from the personal to the global, that determine an individual’s health.
To help us better understand this are two experts. Simee Adhikari: the co-founder and the Chief Sustainability Officer at Ring Workspaces and Dr. Stephanie McCarter, MD: internal medicine and environmental medicine physician at the Environmental Health Center of Dallas.
