Understanding indoor air quality: A guide for primary care nurses

When we think about air quality and its contribution to health, we usually think about the outside air pollution. This article focuses on the impact of indoor air quality on health and what primary and community nurses need to know so that they can advise their patients appropriately.

Bad air quality refers to any condition that impacts health such as temperature, visibility and smell. Air pollution, on the other hand, is the presence in air of substances that are harmful to people or other living organisms due to human activity.¹

An important issue

‘Why treat people and send them back to them to conditions that made them sick?’ asks professor of public health and health inequalities expert Sir Michael Marmot.