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Living and Working in a Healthy Environment: How Sensor Research in Flanders can Help Measure and Monitor Exposure to Certain Environmental Factors Departement of spatial development, environment, energy, climate, green economy, animal welfare
In this paper, we discuss the research that the Environment and Health research team at the Flemish Department of Environment & Spatial Development conducts in order to measure human exposure to certain factors via sensors. Those particular factors were chosen mainly because they are part of themes around
which the Flemish Department can make policy. We will consider three ongoing cases: measuring the quality of the indoor environment ...
which the Flemish Department can make policy. We will consider three ongoing cases: measuring the quality of the indoor environment ...
The effect of changing micro-scale physical environmental factors on an environment's invitingness for transportation cycling in adults : an exploratory study using manipulated photographs. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Previous studies have shown convincing evidence for positive relationships between transportation cycling in adults and macro-scale physical environmental factors. In contrast, relationships are less consistent for more changeable, micro-scale environmental factors. The majority of existing studies used observational study designs, which cannot determine causality. The present mixed-methods study used manipulated photographs to determine causal ...
Psychosocial and social environmental factors as moderators in the relation between the objective environment and older adults’ active transport Ghent University
Follow-up research into the prevention of asthma and allergy in relation to environmental factors in children of the first generation Environment and Health Support Centre Departement of spatial development, environment, energy, climate, green economy, animal welfare
Asthma is one of the most common chronic conditions worldwide (Pearce et al. 2007). The diagnosis of asthma is based on clinical symptoms, such as recurrent periods of shortness of breath, cough and tightness in the chest. These symptoms are caused by inflammation of the respiratory tract. There are different forms of asthma, each with its own phenotype (e.g. allergic versus non-allergic asthma) and probably also its own aetiology and ...
Symptoms associated with environmental factors” (SAEF) – Towards a paradigm shift regarding “idiopathic environmental intolerance” and related phenomena KU Leuven
Health conditions characterized by symptoms associated with chemical, physical and biological environmental factors unrelated to objectifiable pathophysiological mechanisms are often labelled by the general term “idiopathic environmental intolerances”. More specific, exposure-related terms are also used, e.g. “multiple chemical sensitivities”, “electromagnetic hypersensitivity” and “candidiasis hypersensitivity”. The prevalence of the conditions ...
Measuring physical activity-related environmental factors : reliability and predictive validity of the European environmental questionnaire ALPHA Ghent University
BACKGROUND: A questionnaire to assess physical activity related environmental factors in the European population (a 49-item and an 11-item version) was created as part of the framework of the EU-funded project "Instruments for Assessing Levels of PHysical Activity and fitness (ALPHA)". This paper reports on the development and assessment of the questionnaire's test-retest stability, predictive validity, and applicability to European adults. ...