Learn about factors that influence indoor air quality
Learn about factors that influence indoor air quality
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Learn about factors that influence indoor air quality
Healthy Homes
Most of us spend much of our time indoors. The air that we breathe in our homes, in schools, and in offices can put us at risk for health problems. Some pollutants can be chemicals,
Several sources of air pollution are in homes, schools, and offices. Some pollutants cause health problems such as sore eyes, burning in the nose and throat, headaches, or fatigue. Other pollutants cause or worsen allergies, respiratory illnesses (such as asthma), heart disease, cancer, and other serious long-term conditions. Sometimes individual pollutants at high concentrations, such as carbon monoxide, cause death. Learn more about factors that influence indoor air quality in the EPA publication, "Care for your Air: A Guide to Indoor Air Quality".
Last updated October 16, 2020
Care for Your Air
Learn about indoor air quality in homes, schools and offices, in the EPA's FREE 4-page publication, "Care for Your Air: A Guide to Indoor Air Quality".
Safe & Healthy Homes
This Consumer Guide from HUD is 12-page publication that includes the basic principles of healthy homes with helpful action steps, checklists, graphics, and links for supplemental information.
