Environment
Your Healthy Home
The Lung Association’s Healthy Home Audit is a room-by-room guide that will help you identify and evaluate common indoor environmental problems that may be affecting your home and your health. It also takes a look at our energy consumption, which, through the generation of power from fossil fuels affects our outdoor air.
Indoor Air Quality
On average, Canadians spend 90% of their time indoors. There are two main sources of indoor air pollutants that affect humans can be characterized as either biological or chemical.
Important Air Quality Links
Your Home
School
Workplace
Scents
Common Signs and Symptoms of exposure to poor indoor air
Outdoor Air Quality
Outdoor air quality is an important health concern. Air pollution can irritate, inflame, or destroy lung tissue. The following are people who are most affected by pollution:
- people with lung disease, including asthma and COPD
- children
- seniors
- people with heart disease
- people with suppressed immune systems
Anyone can have breathing problems on days when there's air pollution.
Important Air Quality Links
Common Symptoms of poor outdoor air quality
How air polution enters the body
Pollutants
Climate Change
Cosmetic Pesticides
Heating
Current Air Quality from Environment Canada
The Weather Network
Important links to Air Pollution cutbacks and alternative solutions
Environment Canada's Clean Air Online site
Avoid idling you car Natural Resources Canada
The Burn it Smart website Wood burning and its health affects
The national Lung Association’s website offers extensive information on Air Quality and Pollution.
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