Indoor Environment as Everyday Ecosystem: The Added Value of a One Health Approach

Journal title SALUTE E SOCIETÀ
Author/s Stefania Fucci, Alberto Mantovani, Domenica Taruscio
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2026/2
Language English Pages 13 P. 78-90 File size 304 KB
DOI 10.3280/SES2026-002008
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Indoor pollution is an increasingly relevant yet socially underestimated public health issue, involving everyday environments traditionally associated with safety and protection. Chemical, biological, and physical hazards interact with housing conditions and social practices, producing cumulative exposures that remain largely invisible and unevenly distributed. Drawing on an integrated perspective, the article combines an examination of major indoor risk sources with a sociological analysis of the social invisibility of exposure, risk perception, and the individualization of responsibility, showing how inequalities shape both vulnerability and responses to risk. The paper argues that the One Health approach should be understood not only as interdisciplinary cooperation but as a transformative framework capable of reconnecting biological, environmental, and social dimensions of health. Conceptualizing indoor environments as everyday ecosystems, the article calls for a shift from individualized and downstream responses toward preventive and intersectorial governance addressing structural determinants of exposure.

Keywords: indoor pollution; One Health; pollutants; social inequalities; risk perception; everyday environment.

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Stefania Fucci, Alberto Mantovani, Domenica Taruscio, Indoor Environment as Everyday Ecosystem: The Added Value of a One Health Approach in "SALUTE E SOCIETÀ" 2/2026, pp 78-90, DOI: 10.3280/SES2026-002008