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| H Jasmine ChaoSummaryAffiliation: Taipei Medical University Country: Taiwan Publications
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The work environment and workers' health in four large office buildingsH Jasmine Chao
Graduate Institute of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
Environ Health Perspect 111:1242-8. 2003..15-2.30), and jobs frequently requiring hard work (OR = 1.43; 95% CI, 1.05-1.95). This study emphasizes the importance of maintaining a clean, uncrowded workspace and the importance of chair fungi as a correlate for health effects...
The effects of transported Asian dust on the composition and concentration of ambient fungi in TaiwanH Jasmine Chao
School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, 5F Health Science Building, No 250 Wu Hsing St, Taipei, Taiwan, 110
Int J Biometeorol 56:211-9. 2012..Future studies should explore the health impacts of ambient fungi during Asian dust events, adjusting for the synergistic/antagonistic effects of weather and air pollutants...
A multilevel analysis of neighborhood and individual effects on individual smoking and drinking in TaiwanYing Chih Chuang
Graduate Institute of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
BMC Public Health 7:151. 2007....
Meteorological factors and ambient bacterial levels in a subtropical urban environmentYi Hua Wu
School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, 5F Health Science Building, No 250 Wu Hsing St, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
Int J Biometeorol 56:1001-9. 2012..In the future, more longitudinal studies are needed to confirm the relationships and possible mechanisms between ambient bacteria and meteorological factors, as well as to evaluate the ecological and health impacts of ambient bacteria...
Effects of ambient particulate matter and fungal spores on lung function in schoolchildrenBing Yu Chen
Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Pediatrics 127:e690-8. 2011..Studies examining the combined health effects of both have been relatively lacking. We conducted a longitudinal study to investigate whether exposure to air pollutants and fungal spores might exacerbate childhood respiratory health...
Populations and determinants of airborne fungi in large office buildingsH Jasmine Chao
Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Environ Health Perspect 110:777-82. 2002..More studies are needed to correlate airborne fungi and occupants' health, controlling for seasonal effects and other important environmental factors...
