Abstract:

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) studies in hospitals revealed that patients, workers, and visitors health and well-being were risked by various pollutants, which could lead to nosocomial infections. The complexity and sensitivity about this IAQ studies made the number of research in this area are very limited. This study aimed to compile and analyze the studies about IAQ in hospital for the last 20 years, and the Indonesian regulation about IAQ chronologically. We also compare the legal regulation with Singapore as one of the members of Southeast Asian countries, in order to find an example of current applicable  IAQ regulations. IAQ concerned studies in hospitals were searched in Scopus and thorough cross-referencing. Indonesian Regulation was searched and analyzed the policy output about indoor air pollutant, variables, and hospital standard milestones. Chronological issuance of this regulation was organized and compared the significance output from year to year. The chronological data showed much improvement in term of comprehensiveness and needs of improvement for the enforcement of the monitoring action.