How does Indoor Environmental Quality affect on Public Health in Sustainable Urban?

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has special role in human health due to the fact that most of people spend 90 percent of their time indoor, even most of social activities occur indoor nowadays. Thus IEQ has special effects on indoor social activities and consideration to IEQ can be vital for public health. Also it is obvious that appropriate IEQ happens by design, not by accident. By combining these facts, this would be concluded that designing appropriate IEQ is necessary for current and future urban living and it has raise this question: In what extend does IEQ affect public health in urban? As providing public health is a target for sustainable urban design, consideration to IEQ become an important issue provide public health.This paper will answer this question and try to recommend new methods of designing IEQ which can improve social activities, human well-being and also public health.

کلیدواژه ها:

Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) ، Public Health ، Social Activities ، Sustainable Urban ، Indoor Social Activities