ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2015
Green Buildings and Health.
Review in Current environmental health reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Ventilation on Intellectual Productivity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Associations between Energy Use, Fuel Poverty, Energy Efficiency Improvements and Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- The relationship between buildings and health: a systematic review.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2019Pooled it
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- The Therapeutic Home Environment for Chronic Diseases: A Transdisciplinary Ecosystem for Achieving Migraine Freedom and Managing Comorbid Anxiety, Insomnia, and Chronic Pain.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Indoor air quality and airborne transmission under the One Health lens: A scoping review.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Review
- Image statistics substantiate Gaudí's naturalistic design principles.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Radon exhalation rate and natural radioactivity in the building materials used in metropolitan Jakarta and its surrounding areas, Indonesia.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The spatial and temporal effect of electrochromic windows on indoor and human microbiome in an inpatient hospital.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2024Article
- Grand designs for design policy: Associations between apartment policy standards, perceptions of good design and mental wellbeing.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) Driven Carbon Emission Reduction Research: A 14-Year Bibliometric Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Built environment stakeholders' experiences of implementing healthy urban development: an exploratory study.Cities & health · 2022Article
- The impact of built environment on mental health: A COVID-19 lockdown perspective.Health & place · 2022Article
- Hotel building design, occupants' health and performance in response to COVID 19.International journal of hospitality management · 2022Article
- A multi-scalar perspective on health and urban housing: an umbrella review.Buildings & cities · 2021Article
- Pyrethroid exposure among children residing in green versus non-green multi-family, low-income housing.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2021Article
- Understanding the Role of Standards in the Negotiation of a Healthy Built Environment.Sustainability · 2020Article
- The Impact of Optimized Daylight and Views on the Sleep Duration and Cognitive Performance of Office Workers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Pruning chemicals from the green building landscape.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2020Review
- The Impact of Working in a Green Certified Building on Cognitive Function and Health.Building and environment · 2017Article
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6 authors.
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Abstract
Green building design is becoming broadly adopted, with one green building standard reporting over 3.5 billion square feet certified to date. By definition, green buildings focus on minimizing impacts to the environment through reductions in energy usage, water usage, and minimizing environmental disturbances from the building site. Also by definition, but perhaps less widely recognized, green buildings aim to improve human health through design of healthy indoor environments. The benefits related to reduced energy and water consumption are well-documented, but the potential human health benefits of green buildings are only recently being investigated. The objective of our review was to examine the state of evidence on green building design as it specifically relates to indoor environmental quality and human health. Overall, the initial scientific evidence indicates better indoor environmental quality in green buildings versus non-green buildings, with direct benefits to human health for occupants of those buildings. A limitation of much of the research to date is the reliance on indirect, lagging and subjective measures of health. To address this, we propose a framework for identifying direct, objective and leading "Health Performance Indicators" for use in future studies of buildings and health.
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