Health effects of household air pollution related to biomass cook stoves in resource limited countries and its mitigation by improved cookstoves

R Pratiti, D Vadala, Z Kalynych, P Sud - Environmental Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Household air pollution (HAP) related to cooking is associated with significant
global morbidity and mortality. An estimated three billion people worldwide are exposed to …

Household air pollution and COPD: cause and effect or confounding by other aspects of poverty?

K Mortimer, M Montes de Oca, S Salvi… - … of Tuberculosis and …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
SETTING: Household air pollution (HAP) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) are both major public health problems, reported to cause around 4 million and 3 …

Sex and gender differences in lung disease

P Silveyra, N Fuentes, DE Rodriguez Bauza - Lung Inflammation in Health …, 2021 - Springer
Sex differences in the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system have been widely
reported. These intrinsic sex differences have also been shown to modulate the …

Trend in household energy consumption pattern in India: A case study on the influence of socio-cultural factors for the choice of clean fuel use

K Ravindra, M Kaur-Sidhu, S Mor, S John - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
Solid biomass fuel use is closely intertwined with the life of rural households in Asia.
However, its consumption and demand vary significantly across different countries, states …

Household air pollution from various types of rural kitchens and its exposure assessment

MK Sidhu, K Ravindra, S Mor, S John - Science of the Total Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Exposure to household air pollutants has become a leading environmental health risk in
developing countries. Considering this, real-time temporal variation in fine particulate matter …

Incomplete transitions to clean household energy reinforce gender inequality by lowering women's respiratory health and household labour productivity

P Maji, Z Mehrabi, M Kandlikar - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
India has over 800 million people without access to clean cooking fuel. A well-known, but
under-researched aspect of poor access to clean energy is its cost on woman's health and …

Underreported coal in statistics: A survey-based solid fuel consumption and emission inventory for the rural residential sector in China

L Peng, Q Zhang, Z Yao, DL Mauzerall, S Kang, Z Du… - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Solid fuel consumption and associated emissions from residential use are highly uncertain
due to a lack of reliable statistics. In this study, we estimate solid fuel consumption and …

Lung effects of household air pollution

AY Qiu, S Leng, M McCormack, DB Peden… - The Journal of Allergy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biomass fuel smoke, secondhand smoke, and oxides of nitrogen are common causes of
household air pollution (HAP). Almost 2.4 billion people worldwide use solid fuels for …

A review on recent progress in observations, sources, classification and regulations of PM2.5 in Asian environments

S Gautam, A Yadav, CJ Tsai, P Kumar - Environmental Science and …, 2016 - Springer
Natural and human activities generate a significant amount of PM 2.5 (particles≤ 2.5 μm in
aerodynamic diameter) into the surrounding atmospheric environments. Because of their …

Importance of neighbors in rural households' conversion to cleaner cooking fuels: The impact and mechanisms of peer effects

J Gu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
While household conversion to clean cooking fuels is well documented, the peer influence
of neighbors on rural households using clean cooking fuels has not been investigated. This …