title: It's Our Children's Health: Sick Building Syndrome
author: Janet E. Hiller Ph.d.
description: Dr. Hiller opens the door of opportunity for discussion in order to guide the formation of school policies to provide the required communication and cooperation needed to bring a successful process conclusion to the Sick Building Syndrome issue. --Bruce Wallace, CES, CMS, President/CEO Alliance Environmental, Inc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a book that takes a difficult problem, sick buildings and provides a workable leadership process that can guide administrative success in the school and community. A must read! --Robert Boyd, Ed.D., Professor, Indiana State University&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I applaud Dr. Hiller for her study on mold in school buildings. Her work is extremely relevant and significant for policy-makers and the educational leaders of our schools. This important study should make us cognizant of the negative consequences when we fail to act timely and responsibly when confronted with this potentially hazardous health issue. --James Hawkins, Ph.D., Superintendent, Ypsilanti Public Schools in Michigan<br /><br />I applaud Dr. Hiller for her study on mold in school buildings. Her work is extremely relevant and significant for policy-makers and the educational leaders of our schools. This important study should make us cognizant of the negative consequences when we fail to act timely and responsibly when confronted with this potentially hazardous health issue. --James Hawkins, Ph.D., Superintendent, Ypsilanti Public Schools in Michigan<br /><br />Here is a book that takes a difficult problem, sick buildings and provides a workable leadership process that can guide administrative success in the school and community. A must read! --Robert Boyd, Ed.D., Professor, Indiana State University
zlib_text: BUILDING-RELATED
  DISEASES
  Michael Hodgson, M.D., M.P.H.
  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  Occupational Health Program
  Veterans Health Administration
  Washington, DC
  Building-related diseases (BRD) may be classified, among other ways, by mechanisms of
  disease, as is traditional in medical texts; by presenting symptoms, as is useful in the diag-
  nosis and treatment of patients; or by source and etiologic agent, which are useful
  approaches in engineering and regulatory strategies. Some redundancy will occur in all
  three classification systems. This chapter will present diseases according to the first cate-
  gorization (see Table 54.1).
  Users of this text should remember the distinction between the sick-building syndrome
  (SBS) and what is often called building-related illness (BRI). The latter represent clearly
  recognized clinical conditions with operational criteria (i.e., medical conditions for which
  wide agreement exists on how to make a diagnosis). Even for these, though, there may be
  