Effects of household and participant characteristics on personal exposure and kitchen concentration of fine particulate matter and black carbon in rural Honduras

R Witinok-Huber, ML Clark, J Volckens, BN Young… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Traditional cooking with solid fuels (biomass, animal dung, charcoals, coal) creates
household air pollution that leads to millions of premature deaths and disability worldwide …

Associations between Household Solid Fuel Use, Obesity, and Cardiometabolic Health in China: A Cohort Study from 2011 to 2018

S Zhen, Q Li, J Liao, B Zhu, F Liang - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study aims to explore the longitudinal relationship between solid fuel use and CMD
incidence based on a nationally representative follow-up cohort study. A total of 6038 …

Kitchen concentrations of fine particulate matter and particle number concentration in households using biomass cookstoves in rural Honduras

ML Benka-Coker, JL Peel, J Volckens, N Good… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cooking and heating with solid fuels results in high levels of household air pollutants,
including particulate matter (PM); however, limited data exist for size fractions smaller than …

Reduced Black Carbon Concentrations following a Three-Year Stepped-Wedge Randomized Trial of the Wood-Burning Justa Cookstove in Rural Honduras

BN Young, N Good, JL Peel… - … science & technology …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Household air pollution from cooking-related biomass combustion remains a leading risk
factor for global health. Black carbon (BC) is an important component of particulate matter …

Impact of the wood-burning Justa cookstove on fine particulate matter exposure: A stepped-wedge randomized trial in rural Honduras

ML Benka-Coker, BN Young, JP Keller… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Trial design We evaluated the impact of a biomass stove intervention on fine particulate
matter (PM 2.5) concentrations using an individual-level, stepped-wedge randomized trial …

[HTML][HTML] A hierarchical model for estimating the exposure-response curve by combining multiple studies of acute lower respiratory infections in children and household …

JP Keller, J Katz, AK Pokhrel, MN Bates… - Environmental …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background: Adverse health effects of household air pollution, including acute lower
respiratory infections (ALRIs), pose a major health burden around the world, particularly in …

Impact of randomly assigned “pay-as-you-go” liquefied petroleum gas prices on energy use for cooking: Experimental pilot evidence from rural Rwanda

R Witinok-Huber, KP Keller, E Abimana… - Energy for Sustainable …, 2024 - Elsevier
The disease burden related to air pollution from traditional solid-fuel cooking practices in low-
and middle-income countries impacts millions of people globally. Although the use of …

Estimating long-term average household air pollution concentrations from repeated short-term measurements in the presence of seasonal trends and crossover

JP Keller, ML Clark - Environmental Epidemiology, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Estimating long-term exposure to household air pollution is essential for quantifying health
effects of chronic exposure and the benefits of intervention strategies. However, typically …

Strategies and challenges of a safe fireplace program in rural Kenya: a qualitative study

MA Hunter, K Sylvester, C Rencken… - Journal of Burn Care …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
There is a lack of information on effective burn prevention strategies. The objective of this
study was to examine a safe fireplace program, as a method of burn prevention, in a …

Environmental Epidemiology

JP Keller, GB Anderson - Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental epidemiology encompasses a wide array of topics related to the study and
evaluation of the environmental determinants of diseases in human populations …