Guidance for Clinicians on the Recognition and Management of Health Effects Related to Mold Exposure and Moisture Indoors
The book, a manual directed towards primary care doctors, provides approaches to use for assessing indoor environments and gives physicians strategies to recognize environmentally related clinical problems. For example, the book contains a questionnaire physicians can use to evaluate a patient when an environmental problem is suspected. Filled out by a patient in a few minutes, the questionnaire contains questions that help explore moisture and mold in the patient's home, school, or work environment. Any positive response may indicate uncontrolled moisture with a potential for biological growth and begins a helpful dialog between patient and health care provider. The book also presents illustrative case reports, briefly discusses fungal ecology, reviews current literature on health effects from mold and moisture, outlines principles of a professional environmental assessment, and provides a list of references to specific books or pamphlets to help eliminate moisture incursi on/leaks.
The authors were Eileen Storey, MD, MPH; Paula Schenck, MPH; Kenneth H. Dangman, MD, PhD, MPH; Robert L. De Bernardo, MD, MPH; Chin S. Yang, PhD., Anne Bracker, CIH, MPH, and Michael J. Hodgson, MD, MPH. The work was funded by the U.S. EPA.
The book is available at the UConn Health Center-Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine's "Center for Indoor Environments and Health" website.
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