Solid fuel use in rural China and its health effects

H Liao, X Tang, YM Wei - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Solid fuels such as firewood and coal are widely used for cooking and heating in the
developing countries, which result in serious indoor air pollutions and health effects …

Solid fuel use for cooking and its health effects on the elderly in rural China

J Liu, B Hou, XW Ma, H Liao - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2018 - Springer
Indoor air pollution is mainly caused by solid fuel use for cooking in developing countries.
Many previous studies focused on its health risks on the children and in specific local area …

Cooking fuel types and the health effects: A field study in China

B Hou, J Wu, Z Mi, C Ma, X Shi, H Liao - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Recognizing the health effect induced by using solid fuels is a stimulus for speeding up the
clean energy transition in rural China. This paper estimates the impact of cooking fuel choice …

Does use of solid cooking fuels increase family medical expenses in China?

B Lin, K Wei - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
China has tried to replace solid fuels with cleaner energy in households. The benefits of fuel
switching need to be identified. This article shows that households using solid cooking fuels …

Potential health benefit of reducing household solid fuel use in Shanxi province, China

HES Mestl, K Aunan, HM Seip - Science of the Total Environment, 2006 - Elsevier
Indoor air pollution from solid fuel use has severe health effects. 60% of the Chinese
population lives in rural areas, where most people rely on solid fuels for cooking and …

Cooking fuel choice in rural China: results from microdata

BD Hou, X Tang, C Ma, L Liu, YM Wei, H Liao - Journal of Cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
Unclean cooking fuel is widely used in the developing world, and it is the main indication of
energy poverty in rural China. In this paper, we investigate the situation, transition, and …

Household fuel use for cooking and heating in China: results from the first Chinese Environmental Exposure-Related Human Activity Patterns Survey (CEERHAPS)

X Duan, Y Jiang, B Wang, X Zhao, G Shen, S Cao… - Applied Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Household fuel-use (HFU) patterns are strongly associated with multiple effects, including
air quality, human health, and regional climate change. This paper presents the results from …

Solid fuel use, socioeconomic indicators and risk of cardiovascular diseases and all-cause mortality: a prospective cohort study in a rural area of Sichuan, China

S Qiu, X Chen, X Chen, G Luo, Y Guo… - International journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Estimates indicate that household air pollution caused by solid fuel burning
accounted for about 1.03 million premature mortalities in China in 2016. In the country's rural …

Solid fuel use for household cooking: country and regional estimates for 1980–2010

S Bonjour, H Adair-Rohani, J Wolf… - Environmental …, 2013 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Exposure to household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels in simple
stoves is a major health risk. Modeling reliable estimates of solid fuel use is needed for …

[PDF][PDF] Indoor air pollution from household fuel combustion in China: a review

J Zhang, KR Smith - The 10th International Conference on Indoor Air …, 2005 - Citeseer
Nearly all China's rural residents and a shrinking fraction of urban residents use solid fuels
(biomass and coal) for household cooking and heating. As a result, by use of global meta …