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The sources and factors of tuberculosis transmission at hospital for sustainable indoor air

The Sick Building Syndrome is often related to poor indoor air quality. Healthy indoor environment is needed for a healthy hospital building. Appropriate design elements need to be implemented to accommodate the mass usage of a hospital’s various facilities. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious diseas...

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Main Authors: Ahmad Shakri, Md. Rajuna, Zakaria, Rozana, Yahya, Khairulzan, Abd. Samad, Badrul Hisham, Md. Tarekh, Noor Aliza
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Published: World Academic Publishing 2012
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T Technology (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29899/
http://www.academicpub.org/ijep/paperInfo.aspx?PaperID=590
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spelling my.utm.298992019-01-28T03:46:55Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29899/ The sources and factors of tuberculosis transmission at hospital for sustainable indoor air Ahmad Shakri, Md. Rajuna Zakaria, Rozana Yahya, Khairulzan Abd. Samad, Badrul Hisham Md. Tarekh, Noor Aliza T Technology (General) The Sick Building Syndrome is often related to poor indoor air quality. Healthy indoor environment is needed for a healthy hospital building. Appropriate design elements need to be implemented to accommodate the mass usage of a hospital’s various facilities. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease most commonly caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) which can spread via inhalation of infected aerosols. Therefore, Health Care Workers (HCWs) in a hospital are most vulnerable to TB infection. This paper explicates the sources and factors of TB transmission in the indoor environment of Hospital Sultanah Aminah Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia (HSAJB). The study considered the relationship between the physical layout of the TB ward and its indoor air environment quality. This study utilized the opinions from HCWs who are directly exposed to this kind of environment. The data were obtained from face-to-face questionnaire surveys. The questionnaire used the Likert Scale with five ordinal measures of agreement. From the study, it was found that the source of TB transmission is from positive MTB carriers or active TB patients. Ten factors that control the indoor air environment sustainability (IAES) of TB ward are relatively connected to space area design of TB ward. World Academic Publishing 2012 Article PeerReviewed Ahmad Shakri, Md. Rajuna and Zakaria, Rozana and Yahya, Khairulzan and Abd. Samad, Badrul Hisham and Md. Tarekh, Noor Aliza (2012) The sources and factors of tuberculosis transmission at hospital for sustainable indoor air. International Journal of Environmental Protection, 2 (3). pp. 29-32. ISSN 2226-6437 http://www.academicpub.org/ijep/paperInfo.aspx?PaperID=590
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topic T Technology (General)
spellingShingle T Technology (General)
Ahmad Shakri, Md. Rajuna
Zakaria, Rozana
Yahya, Khairulzan
Abd. Samad, Badrul Hisham
Md. Tarekh, Noor Aliza
The sources and factors of tuberculosis transmission at hospital for sustainable indoor air
description The Sick Building Syndrome is often related to poor indoor air quality. Healthy indoor environment is needed for a healthy hospital building. Appropriate design elements need to be implemented to accommodate the mass usage of a hospital’s various facilities. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease most commonly caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) which can spread via inhalation of infected aerosols. Therefore, Health Care Workers (HCWs) in a hospital are most vulnerable to TB infection. This paper explicates the sources and factors of TB transmission in the indoor environment of Hospital Sultanah Aminah Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia (HSAJB). The study considered the relationship between the physical layout of the TB ward and its indoor air environment quality. This study utilized the opinions from HCWs who are directly exposed to this kind of environment. The data were obtained from face-to-face questionnaire surveys. The questionnaire used the Likert Scale with five ordinal measures of agreement. From the study, it was found that the source of TB transmission is from positive MTB carriers or active TB patients. Ten factors that control the indoor air environment sustainability (IAES) of TB ward are relatively connected to space area design of TB ward.
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author Ahmad Shakri, Md. Rajuna
Zakaria, Rozana
Yahya, Khairulzan
Abd. Samad, Badrul Hisham
Md. Tarekh, Noor Aliza
author_facet Ahmad Shakri, Md. Rajuna
Zakaria, Rozana
Yahya, Khairulzan
Abd. Samad, Badrul Hisham
Md. Tarekh, Noor Aliza
author_sort Ahmad Shakri, Md. Rajuna
title The sources and factors of tuberculosis transmission at hospital for sustainable indoor air
title_short The sources and factors of tuberculosis transmission at hospital for sustainable indoor air
title_full The sources and factors of tuberculosis transmission at hospital for sustainable indoor air
title_fullStr The sources and factors of tuberculosis transmission at hospital for sustainable indoor air
title_full_unstemmed The sources and factors of tuberculosis transmission at hospital for sustainable indoor air
title_sort sources and factors of tuberculosis transmission at hospital for sustainable indoor air
publisher World Academic Publishing
publishDate 2012
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/29899/
http://www.academicpub.org/ijep/paperInfo.aspx?PaperID=590
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