Cooking, smoking, and stunting: Effects of household air pollution sources on childhood growth in India

S Islam, MJ Rana, SK Mohanty - Indoor Air, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the effects of household air pollution (HAP) on child stunting in India
using a sample of 206, 898 under‐five children from the latest National Family Health …

[HTML][HTML] Use of unclean cooking fuels and visual impairment of older adults in India: a nationally representative population-based study

S Islam, AK Upadhyay, SK Mohanty… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite widespread use of unclean cooking fuels (UCF) in India, evidence from nationally
representative data on its association with visual impairment was lacking. We used a …

Household air pollution and childhood stunting in China: A prospective cohort study

M Yao, L Li, M Yang, Y Wu, F Cheng - Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Exposure to air pollution, especially indoor air pollution, was associated with an
increased risk of childhood stunting. However, few longitudinal studies have explored the …

[HTML][HTML] Household air pollution could make children grow shorter in sub-Saharan Africa; but can households help stem the tide on their own?

ML Odame, K Adjei-Mantey - World Development Perspectives, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been growing research interest in the influence of household air
pollution on child health. Despite the increasing advocacy for households to switch from the …

Exposure to household air pollution from solid cookfuels and childhood stunting: a population-based, cross-sectional study of half a million children in low-and middle …

R Caleyachetty, N Lufumpa, N Kumar… - International …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Household air pollution from the incomplete combustion of solid cookfuels in
low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been largely ignored as a potentially …

Impact of indoor Air Pollution on the Linear growth of children in Jimma, Ethiopia

E Mulat, D Tamiru, KH Abate - BMC Public Health, 2024 - Springer
Background Stunting in children is the term for reduced linear growth and development,
which is frequently brought on by a persistently inadequate diet, recurrent infections and …

[HTML][HTML] Nutrition impacts of non-solid cooking fuel adoption on under-five children in developing countries

Y Tang, Y Guo, G Xie, C Liu - Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper examines the nutrition impacts of using non-solid cooking fuel on under-five
children in developing countries. We draw on data from more than 1.12 million children in 62 …

Exposure to household air pollution and childhood multimorbidity risk in Jimma, Ethiopia

E Mulat, D Tamiru, KH Abate - Frontiers in Public Health, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Childhood multimorbidity, characterized by the simultaneous occurrence of
multiple medical conditions in children, is a global concern. Notably, exposure to household …

Relationship between cooking fuels and health among under-5 children in Malawi: a nationwide time-trend survey from 2000 to 2016

CJ Soko, YH Weng, DE Nkhoma, O Nkoka… - Population and …, 2024 - Springer
Fuels are substances used to produce energy and are categorized as primitive (eg,
firewood, agricultural waste, and cow dung); transitional (eg, charcoal, coal, and kerosene); …

A success story of reduction in childhood stunting and underweight in India: analysis of pooled data from three rounds of Indian demographic and health surveys …

S Srivastava, AK Upadhyay - Journal of Biosocial Science, 2022 - cambridge.org
This study used a series of individual-level datasets from National Family Health Surveys
conducted in 1998–99, 2005–06 and 2015–16 to assess the factors behind the reduction in …