GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

Indoor air pollution occurs when harmful gases and/or particles are released into the air of a house, apartment or any other building. This type of pollution can cause a number of serious health problems among the occupants of an affected building, especially since indoor areas receive relatively little air circulation. Indoor air pollution is seen as real threat to human existence on the planet earth since people spend as much as 90% of their time indoor, and much of that time is in their homes. This makes it easy for man to have immediate or long-term reaction to poor indoor air quality. Since the quality of air in homes/office can impact one’s health or the health of those we live with, care should be taken to prevent the emission of pollutant from sources like tobacco smoking, burning of forest, local lantern (boiboi), use of insecticide/chemicals and other offensive air/chemical that may trigger health effect like asthma, cancer, difficulty in breathing etc not to occur. Since human health solely depends on its environment, care should be taken to clean, protect in the use of natural air surrounding us. Besides using good legislation on consumption of some toxin substance, our home should be architecturally designed to include good ventilation, routine inspection of homes/offices by Environmental Health Officers, NGO’s for better discovery of potential health hazards is also needful.