Air Quality Professionals Address Pollution Concerns in Schools for 2023-2024 School Year
Air quality professionals from Camfil discuss why it is so important for students to breathe clean air at school and how school districts can improve air quality in their schools.
As the 2023-2024 school year begins, it is important for schools to consider the impact that air quality has on students’ learning experiences and health outcomes. Poor indoor air quality in schools has been linked to less productivity, worse academic performance, more frequent absences, and poor mental health outcomes, in addition to physical health impacts.
In a new resource, air quality professionals from global air filtration engineering and manufacturing company Camfil discuss why it is so important for students to breathe clean air at school and how school districts can improve air quality in their schools.
“Not only does clean air aid learning by boosting students’ cognitive capabilities, but it also increases productivity,” says Mark Davidson, Camfil’s Manager of Marketing and Technical Materials, “Children greatly benefit from having sharp cognitive function, as it plays a crucial role in developing critical thinking skills, absorbing information, and acquiring problem-solving abilities.”
The article covers the following topics:
What are the main sources of air pollution in schools?
Why is clean air important in schools?
How does air pollution affect productivity in schools?
How does air pollution affect school attendance?
How does air pollution affect children’s brain development?
How does air pollution affect mental health outcomes for school-aged children?
What air filters are the best for use in public and private schools?
Read the full resource on the importance of air quality concerns in schools here.
About Camfil Clean Air Solutions
For more than half a century, Camfil has been helping people breathe cleaner air. As a leading manufacturer of premium clean air solutions, we provide commercial and industrial systems for air filtration and air pollution control that improve worker and equipment productivity, minimize energy use, and benefit human health and the environment. We firmly believe that the best solutions for our customers are the best solutions for our planet, too. That’s why every step of the way – from design to delivery and across the product life cycle – we consider the impact of what we do on people and on the world around us. Through a fresh approach to problem-solving, innovative design, precise process control, and a strong customer focus we aim to conserve more, use less and find better ways – so we can all breathe easier.
The Camfil Group is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and has 30 manufacturing sites, six R&D centers, local sales offices in 35+ countries, and about 5,600 employees and growing. We proudly serve and support customers in a wide variety of industries and in communities across the world. To discover how Camfil USA can help you to protect people, processes and the environment, visit us at www.camfil.us/
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