Aktas, Yasemin D;
Duchaine, Caroline;
Efthymiopoulos, Spyros;
Miron, Patrick;
Ouazia, Boualem;
Veillette, Marc;
Watt, Larry;
... Khan, Faiz Ahmad; + view all
(2023)
Housing-related determinants of lung health in Nunavik, Canada.
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Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Moisture in Buildings 2023 (ICMB23).
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Abstract
The impact of climate change on lung health has been long established. The Inuit Nunangat region of Nunavik in Quebec, Canada has long started to face the consequences of climate change. In conjunction with the region’s existing vulnerabilities rooted in social determinants of health and historic injustices, this leads to poor lung health across Nunavik as evidenced by much higher lung disease rates than the Canadian average. This paper aims to describe the aims, objectives and methodology of a new project that has recently been launched to address these issues with specific emphasis on mould detection as well as indoor and building fabric survey: “Resilient Responses to Protect Lung Health in Nunavik” (Anirniq, 2022-2025) funded as part of the Canada-Inuit Nunangat-United Kingdom (CINUK) Arctic Research Programme.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Housing-related determinants of lung health in Nunavik, Canada |
| Event: | 2nd International Conference on Moisture in Buildings 2023 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14293/icmb230049 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14293/icmb230049 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ( CC BY 4.0). Users are allowed to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), as long as the authors and the publisher are explicitly identified and properly acknowledged as the original source. |
| Keywords: | lung health, climate change, Arctic, housing, Inuit, Nunavik, mould |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172706 |
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