Health and Environmental Risks of Solid Fuel Use

Last updated April 24, 2007

Recent Health and Indoor Air Articles

    <p>Exposure and Health Studies</p>
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  • Clearing the Air, How epidemiology, engineering, and experimentfingered fine particles as airborne killers by Jonathon Shaw, BryanWillson May 2005

  • Epidemiologic Approaches to Research on Air Quality,Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS

    February 17 and 24, 2005, Johns Hopkins University, Resources for the Future February 2005

            <li><a href="http://www.who.int/indoorair/en/">World Health Program on Indoor Air Pollution</a> 2005
            <li><a href="/stovesdoc/WHO/briefing2.pdf">2nd Indoor Air Thematic Briefing</a> on Health and the Burden of Disease,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.who.int/indoorair/info/briefing2.pdf">WHO</a>&nbsp;2005
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            <li><a href="http://www.itdg.org/?id=iap_who">WHO&nbsp;Statement on Indoor Air Pollution</a> Women's Day, October 14, 2004, WHO/UNDP (ITDG) 
            <li><a href="http://www.gvep.org/content/general/detail/8665">Smoke in the Kitchen: Health impacts of indoor air pollution in developing countries</a>, Global Village Energy Partnership, DFID, London, July 30, 2004, Nigel Bruce, Liz Bates, Linda Doroski
            <li><a href="http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2003/5559/5559.html">Effect of Indoor Air Pollution from Biomass Combustion on Prevalence of Asthma in the Elderly</a>, Vinod Mishra, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA , Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 111, Number 1 January 2003 <br>
    
    
            <li><a href="http://www.lboro.ac.uk/well/resources/well-studies/full-reports-pdf/task0512.pdf">What's Cooking? A review of the health impacts of indoor air pollution and technical interventions for its reduction</a>  WELL Study produced under Task 512 by Jessica Budds, Adam Biran and Jonathan RouseOctober 2001 
            <li><a href="http://sparknet.info/uploads/file/HHEhealthIntro.pdf">Household Energy and Use: An Introduction</a>, Nigel Bruce, 2002, <a href="http://sparknet.info/goto.php/qv/th.health/theme.htm">Sparknet </a>
    

  • Impact of Air Pollution on Child Respiratory Health, Barnes (pdf 153k) Venter Forest Services, December 2002

  • Health and Environmental Effects of Cooking Stove Use in Developing Countries Donna M. Staton & Marcus H. Harding
  • Jyoti Parikh: EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTANTS FROM COMBUSTION OF COOKING FUELS: A CASE STUDY OF RURAL TAMIL NADU, INDIA
  • A Review of Particulate Matter and Health: Focus on Developing Countries Lily Panyacosit (2000) Interim Report IR-00-005, IIASA, Austria

            <li><a href="http://www.riskworld.com/abstract/2000/SRAam00/ab0ac103.htm">Indoor Air Pollution&nbsp;Risks in&nbsp;Rural China</a> (2000) Society for Risk Analysis (abs)
        <li><a href="http://www.cmhealth.org/docs/wg5_paper12.pdf">Addressing the Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor</a> &#150; Implications for Policy Action and Intervention Measures, Y. von Schirnding, N. Bruce, K. Smith, G. Ballard-Tremeer, M. Ezzati, K. Lvovsky (July 2001) WHO&nbsp;Commission on Macroeconomics and Health WG5 : 12 (pdf)
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        <p><b>Fuels and Indoor Air Quality</b></p>
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            <li>Shubham Chaudhuri and Alexander S.P. Pfaff, January 2003. <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7eap196/fuel-choice-jan2003.pdf">Fuel-choice and indoor air quality: a household-level perspective on economic growth and the environment</a> Department of Economics and School of International and Public Affairs Columbia University<br>
    
    
    
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        <p><b>Organizations</b></p>
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            <li>Practical Action (ITDG)
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                    <li><a href="http://www.who.int/indoorair/interventions/itdg/en/index.html">ITDG&nbsp;Study on Smoke, Health and Household Energy in Kenya, Sudan and Nepal</a> 
                    <li><a href="http://www.itdg.org/html/smoke/smoke_report_3.htm">Reducing Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution</a>
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            <li><a href="http://www.pciaonline.org">Partnership for Clean Air</a>, US&nbsp;EPA Brenda Doroski, John Mitchell
            <li>World Health Organization <a href="http://www.who.int/whr/en/">Report October 2002</a>
            <li><a href="http://ceihd.berkeley.edu">Center for Enterpreneurship in International Health and Development</a>, UC Berkeley, Danan Harmon Charron
            <li>UC Berkely, Kirk Smith 
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                    <li><a href="http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/guat/page.asp?id=1">Stove Intervention Study in the Guatemalan Highlands</a>
                    <li><a href="http://www.crosslink.net/%7eehp/ari.pdf">Lowering Exposure of Children to Indoor Air Pollution to Prevent Acute Respiratory Infection</a> Environmental Health Project (pdf)
                    <li><a href="/stovesdoc/Smith/Smith.htm">Overview of the Indian National Burden of Disease from Indoor Air Pollution</a> Kirk R. Smith (July 12/98)
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            <li>US EPA, UC Berkeley, Princeton, Dan Kammen
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                    <li>US&nbsp;EPA <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/09/03_epa.html">Indoor Air Pollution Respiratory Research</a>, Dan Kammen 
                    <li><a href="http://www.solutions-site.org/cat2_sol60.htm">Research Development and Commercialization of the Kenya Ceramic Jiko and Other Improved Stoves in Africa</a>
                    <li>M. Ezzatti, D Kammen, <a href="http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7erael/Kammen-Ezzati-Lancet_2001.pdf">Indoor Air Pollution from Biomass Combustion and Acute Respiratory Infections in Kenya: an Exposure-response Study (pdf)</a>
    
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            <li>World Meteorological Organization, Commission for Climatology (2001) <a href="http://www.wmo.ch/web/wcp/clips2001/html/Biomass%20Energy.pdf">CLIMATE INFORMATION FOR BIOMASS ENERGY APPLICATIONS</a>, SANDRA ROBLES-GIL, COMISION NACIONAL DEL AGUA, Mexico 
            <li><a href="http://www.wri.org/>World Resources Institute</a> Health Effects of Air Pollution
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        <p><b>Other Publications</b></p>
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            <li><a href="http://www.rff.org/rff/rff_press/bookdetail.cfm?outputID=8213">The Urban Household Energy Transition Social and Environmental Impacts in the Developing World</a><b> </b>Douglas F. Barnes, Kerry Krutilla, and William F. Hyde, 2005/152 pages, ISBN 1-933115-06-8 RFF Press, Resources for the Future
    
    
            <li><a href="http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2003/apr/tech/kb_kenya.html">How Charcoal Fires Heat the World</a> Environmental Science and Technology Online April 2003 and Rob Bailis, Majid Ezzati, Daniel Kammen, <a href="http://pubs3.acs.org/acs/journals/doilookup?in_doi=10.1021/es026058q">Greenhouse Gas Implications of Household Energy Technology in Kenya</a>, Environmental Science and Technology 2003, 37, 2051-2059 
            <li><a href="/stovesdoc/Environment/RP188.pdf">Natural Resource Regeneration: Its Impact on Behavioral Changes in the use of Cooking Fuels and Healt</a>h (2001) Marcella D&#x2019;Souza
            <li><a href="http://www.arrpeec.ait.ac.th/Booklets/Philippines_completed.pdf">ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES: PHILIPPINES</a>, Asian Regional Research Programme in Energy, Environment and Climate (ARRPEEC), SIDA&nbsp;(Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency)
            <li><a href="http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kf0f/Cookstove_SURG_Report_2-00.pdf">Air Pollution From Cookstoves: Energy Alternatives and Policy in Rural China</a>, Melissa Chan (2000) Carnegie Mellon
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            <li><a href="http://www.cmhealth.org/docs/wg5_paper12.pdf"><img src="http://www.repp.org/discussiongroups/resources/stoves/Environment/WHOWG5_12.gif" alt=""  border="0"></a>
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        <p><b>GENERAL</b></p>
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        <p><a href="http://www.who.int/environmental_information/Air/Guidelines/aqguide6.pdf">Guidelines for Air Quality</a> WHO Geneva 2000</p>
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            <li><a href="http://www.who.int/environmental_information/Air/Guidelines/aqguide6.pdf"><img src="/stovesdoc/Environment/Whosave.gif" alt=""   border="0"></a>
            <li><a href="http://www.who.int/environmental_information/Air/Guidelines/aqguide6.pdf"><img src="/stovesdoc/Environment/Worldfuel.gif" alt=""  border="0"></a>
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