Four different methods have been applied to estimate the burden of disease due to indoor
air pollution from household solid fuel use in developing countries (LDCs). The largest …

As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Burden of Disease Comparative
Risk Assessment, the burden of disease attributable to urban ambient air pollution was …

Objectives. To estimate the burden of respiratory ill health in South African children and
adults in 2000 from exposure to indoor air pollution associated with household use of solid …

BACKGROUND A critical review was conducted of the quantitative literature linking indoor
air pollution from household use of biomass fuels with acute respiratory infections in young …

Around 50% of people, almost all in developing countries, rely on coal and biomass in the
form of wood, dung and crop residues for domestic energy. These materials are typically …

This chapter summarizes the methodology used to assess the burden of disease caused by
indoor air pollution from household use of solid fuels. Most research into and control of …

Biomass fuels and coal are vital to health and welfare in developing nations. 1 Worldwide,
almost 3 billion people use biomass—wood, charcoal, crop residues, and animal dung …

The disease burden of a population, and how that burden is distributed across different
subpopulations (eg infants, women), are important pieces of information for defining …

In the last decade, a number of quantitative epidemiological studies of specific diseases
have been done in developing countries that for the first time allow estimation of the total …

Background Previous global burden of disease (GBD) estimates for household air pollution
(HAP) from solid cookfuel use were based on categorical indicators of exposure. Recent …