One word to my women readers, To those who feel acutely the misery of cooking on smoky
chulas and are looking for relief, this book brings a message of hope. But to those who think …

In the Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) done as part of the Global Burden of Disease
project (GBD-2010), the global and regional burdens of household air pollution (HAP) due to …

Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world
today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature …

Background: Estimating the burden of disease attributable to long-term exposure to fine
particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) in ambient air requires knowledge of both the shape and magnitude …

The sentiment that woodsmoke, being a natural substance, must be benign to humans is
still sometimes heard. It is now well established, however, that wood-burning stoves and …

… If not participating in a quality-control program, such as that r quired by GEMS, however,
the data may not be … b R = respirable particles only … Xiao & Xu (74) found a statistically …

Current scientific evidence, derived largely from studies in North America and Western
Europe (NAWE), indicates that urban air pollution, 1 which is derived largely from combustion …

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 …

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 …

Objective Nearly all China’s rural residents and a shrinking fraction of urban residents use
solid fuels (biomass and coal) for household cooking and/or heating. Consequently, global …