Health promotion in healing environments: the application of a sampling methodology for testing VOCs� annual values in inpatient rooms

Introduction. Indoor Air Quality is one the main issue in which governments is focusing. In healing spaces, several researches are reporting a growing number of data analysis and research works in order to better health of users and workers. Currently the main investigations are about biological and physical risks, otherwise chemical ones are less investigated. Several countries are carried out air quality monitoring in those professional workplaces in which chemicals are used, but also in some typically indoor spaces for the building hygiene evaluations.