Indoor air quality at school and students’ performance: Recommendations of the UNESCO Chair on Health Education and Sustainable Development & the Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA)

Manuela Pulimeno ^1,2 , Prisco Piscitelli ^1,3 * , Salvatore Colazzo ^1,4, Annamaria Colao ^1,5, Alessandro Miani ^1,3

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