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What is the definition of healthy home?

What is a healthy home?

By Mary HobbsPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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The definition of healthy home is defined by referring to the world Health Organization's definition of human health. Healthy home is an overall home environment that meets physical, psychological and social health, and is known as a healthy home. The way to achieve healthy home is to rely on the "comprehensive solution of healthy home" to create a healthy, comfortable and taste of the overall home environment. Chinese name: health home definition: the definition of people's health to meet: physical, psychological, social purpose: health, comfort, taste of the overall home environment.

The World Health Organization also put forward that "health is not only the absence of physical disease, but also mental health, good social adaptation and morality", that is, to meet the "physical, psychological and social" three aspects of health factors, that is, the absence of disease, positive attitude and good social contact. The home environment serves people, so a healthy home environment must also meet the requirements of the World Health Organization for human health, so a healthy home also needs to meet these three needs.

One, the physiology health that physiology health lives in the environment refers to is in the whole household environment, do not pollute, do not exist formaldehyde, benzene, xylene and other toxic and harmful substances, do not produce harm to the person's physiology.

Formaldehyde, benzene and other toxic substances exist in home decoration materials, furniture, jewelry, under the premise of ensuring physiological health, the products in these homes must be healthy, without any pollution, building materials, furniture, jewelry requirements are higher.

In 73% of cases, major pollutants (formaldehyde, TVOC, benzene, radon) exceeded the standard. Is that shocking? At 73 percent, almost three out of every four homes tested had serious health concerns. Add in PM2.5, PM10, bacteria, viruses, lampblack and other ubiquitous pollutants, and you are most likely living in the hardest hit area of indoor air pollution! Improving indoor air quality has been a platitude topic. Put green plants, open Windows for ventilation, place activated carbon, install exhaust fans/ventilation fans, install air purifiers... Do these familiar techniques really work?

1) Adsorption of green plants

Green plants indeed have a certain purification effect on some gaseous pollutants, but its purification effect is limited, bacteria, viruses, haze dust is still powerless. Rely on plants to absorb formaldehyde, the need to fill the home with green plants, and require the home formaldehyde value in the national standard 3 times below. When the pollution is severe, the plants can do nothing about it and even get poisoned by the pollutants.

2) Open Windows for ventilation

When the outdoor air condition is good, open the window, the circulating air will send part of the indoor pollutants out of the room, and replenish oxygen for the room, but also bring outdoor pollutants to the room. Additional, the way that opens a window ventilated applies to the spring and autumn season with appropriate temperature only. Summer high temperature is hot, indoor heating in winter, these two seasons are just the most serious season of decoration pollution volatilization, but often closed doors and Windows, pollutants accumulate more and more, for a long time.

3) Air purifier

Air purifier uses internal circulation filtration, the principle and activated carbon are similar, through the physical adsorption method to absorb some pollutants, purification effect is limited. When the screen adsorption saturation, the purification effect will be significantly reduced, the need for regular replacement. As ventilation cannot be carried out, the concentration of carbon dioxide and decoration pollution will continue to rise, and it is best to use it under the condition of good air circulation.

In addition to these common means, there are many unreliable: such as fumigated vinegar in addition to formaldehyde, pineapple aroma cover odor, dry tea, toilet paper adsorption odor...... Not only does nothing, but it may provide a breeding ground for bacteria.

Two, mental health home environment mental health refers to the overall home environment, there is no psychological harm to people's factors, such as noise, ventilation, color, light pollution and other psychological longevity of the people subtle negative impact. Ventilation is often not taken seriously, but the flow rate of wind and frequency are very big to the person's influence, especially in household environment, below very relaxed circumstance, it is more such, wind cent water learns one part is hide wind gather gas, have scientific reason, some people sleep sleep stroke, it is household ventilated processing is bad.

Three ,social health, social health household environment refers to the home owner because of his household environment with elegant taste, can highlight the host's taste and culture, the host will originally in hotels, coffee shops and other places of social transferred to their home, using household environment to entertain friends with taste, realized through friends with high-grade household environment to master good taste, So as to realize "family socializing". The main user of a healthy home is a person, so the health of the home environment can not be separated from the health of people and exist alone, so the home environment that meets the three health needs of people can be called a healthy home, so that a healthy home becomes a personified space with life atmosphere.

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