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Article: Indoor air quality assessment of daycare facilities with carbon dioxide temperature, and humidity as indicators. (Features).
- Article from:
- Journal of Environmental Health
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Introduction
Today, over 50 percent of mothers whose youngest children are under the age of six are in the workplace (Hofferth & Phillips, 1987; Strauman-Raymond, Lie, & Kempf-Berkesth, 1993). A large number of American children are being taken care of inside daycare settings. Research studies indicate, however, that child daycare service environments can be hazardous places for young children because of indoor air quality (IAQ) problems (Daneault, Beausoleil, & Messing, 1992). Since young children differ from older age groups in terms of physical structures and functioning--their lungs are still developing, as are their immune and central nervous systems, and ...