Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Health outcomes related to built environment.- Chapter 3. Identification of health risk factors and their parameters.- Chapter 4. Interactions among health risk factors and decision making process.
Mateja Dovjak, Ph.D., is lecturer and researcher at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Chair of Buildings and Constructional Complexes and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana. In 2006, she graduated from the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana with a specialisation in environmental health and received the Prešeren award. She completed her Ph.D. in the Environmental Sciences postgraduate study programme, at the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Her research focuses on design of healthy, comfortable and sustainable buildings (thermal comfort, indoor air quality, daylight, acoustics, ergonomics, universal design), and content and emissions of hazardous chemicals in construction products. Mateja has contributed to novel research and development of new areas in connective thinking, e.g., exergy analyses of thermal processes inside the human body together with the processes in a building, morphology design of healing environments, development of integral user-centred cyber-physical systems that create optimal healing-oriented conditions. She has had international collaborations with the Laboratory of Building Environment, Tokyo City University; University of Denmark, Department of Civil Engineering, Section for Indoor Climate and Building Physics; and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Building Design and Technology.
Andreja Kukec, Ph.D., is lecturer and researcher at the
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Centre of Public
Health and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana. In
2006 she graduated from the Faculty of Health Sciences, University
of Ljubljana, with a specialization in environmental health. In
2013 she finished her Ph.D. under the Environmental Sciences
postgraduate study programme at the University of Nova Gorica,
Slovenia. Her research and pedagogic work focuses on public health,
environmental and social determinants of health, epidemiological
methodology (methods and tools), public health measurement, and
analytical approaches to health. Andreja’s novel research includes
research on various environmental determinants of public health
(outdoor air pollution, indoor air pollution, noise); the
development of methodologies for assessing the impact of outdoor
air pollution (gas pollutant, different size of particulate matter,
ultrafine particulate) on health of different population groups
(children, elderly); epidemiological methodology (study design on
individual and population level, analytical approach); public
health measurements (health promotion, engineering and public
activities); methods and tools in public health (health impact
assessment, health risk assessment in industrial polluted sites,
spatial analysis); and preparation of the exposure assessment of
different environmental problems (e.g. outdoor and indoor air
pollution, noise, and water contamination) in collaboration with
interdisciplinary teams (public health experts, engineering
experts, and physicians).
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