Quality Assessment of Environmental Hygiene and Health of Indoor Bathroom Design

室內浴廁衛生環境健康品質評估

10.3966/101632122019120110011

廖婉茹(Wan-Ju Liao)；鄭富籌(Fu-Chou Cheng)

Human Health ； Spatial Environment ； Bacteria ； Survey of the Current State ； Toile ； 人體健康 ； 空間 ； 環境 ； 細菌 ； 現況調查 ； 廁所

建築學報

110期_S期：創新低碳與綠建築專刊Ⅱ（2019 / 12 / 30）

49 - 58

英文

The high humidity environment in Taiwan is closely related to human health issues, therefore, humidity level control is an important aspect in the creation of a healthy and comfortable indoor environment. As most people in Taiwan have neglected this issue, it has led to the growth of many bacteria in the bathroom which is the most humid indoor environment. This is hazardous to human health and has caused people who live in this environment to suffer from long-term allergies and illnesses. This study will establish a Bathroom Healthy Quality (BHQ) Evaluation System to assess the healthy quality of the indoor residential bathroom. The review will focus on environmental factors like openings for ventilation of the bathroom, equipment, regular maintenance cleaning, etc. and develop an evaluation form to evaluate the indoor bathroom. Improvement can be carried out for items with low ratings after the evaluation to improve the indoor environmental health index and to minimize the growth of bacteria in the bathroom that is hazardous to human health. This study serves as a basis and a real case review to establish survey data on the current state of the bathroom environment in northern Taiwan.

台灣高濕度環境與人體健康問題密切相關，控制濕度的質量是非常重要環節之一，以達到室內健康舒適的環境。然而，台灣的大多人忽略了此問題，因而在室內最潮濕的廁所衛浴空間增生了許多的細菌危害著人體健康，導致生活在此環境的人群長期過敏生病。本研究將建立BHQ評估系統（Bathroom Healthy Quality）評估室內住宅衛浴空間健康品質，針對衛浴空間的開口部通風環境、設備、人為定期維護清潔等環境影響等因子作為檢討，並制定評估表給予浴廁空間評分，透過此評估可以針對室內衛浴空間進行評估考核，得知分數後方可針對較低數據的項目進行改善行為，使室內環境健康指數提升，降低衛浴空間的細菌滋生對於人體的危害。在此作為基礎，並實際考核案例，建立北台灣衛浴環境的現況調查數據。

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