Will drivers for home energy efficiency harm occupant health?

Will drivers for home energy efficiency harm occupant health?

The U.K. government has committed to an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, with housing accounting for 27% of total current emissions. There are several drivers both to reduce emissions from homes and to reduce fuel poverty, promoting a range of building and behavioural measures in homes. The health benefits of warmer homes in winter have been described, but there has been less consider...

Home Energy-Efficiency Retrofits

Environmental Health Perspectives • volume 119 | number 7 | July 2011 A 283 acquiesced to that point in a reply to the first of several letters to the editor by Brondum (2007) on the same topic. However, Braun et al. (2007) noted that including such information is not always possible when, for example, the use of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data or other constraint...

Avoiding Health Pitfalls of Home Energy-Efficiency Retrofits

Health effects of home energy efficiency interventions in England: a modelling study

OBJECTIVE To assess potential public health impacts of changes to indoor air quality and temperature due to energy efficiency retrofits in English dwellings to meet 2030 carbon reduction targets. DESIGN Health impact modelling study. SETTING England. PARTICIPANTS English household population. INTERVENTION Three retrofit scenarios were modelled: (1) fabric and ventilation retrofits insta...

Will Job Testing Harm Minority Workers?

Because of the near-universal …nding that minorities fare poorly on standardized tests, the use of such tests for employment screening is thought to pose an equity-e¢ ciency trade-o¤: improved selection comes at a cost of screening out more minority applicants. This paper investigates the consequences of standardized testing for minority employment and productivity. We analyze the experience of...