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Fossil energy price and outdoor air pollution: predictions from a QUAIDS model [PDF]

Biofuel Research Journal, 2020
Cheap fossil energy leads to overconsumption of energy and hazardous levels of air pollution. In this study, we provide a framework to connect fossil energy price policy to private consumption of energy and outdoor air pollution.
Seyed Reza Khatibi, Seyed M. Karimi, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Majid Kermani, Seyed Abbas Motevalian   +4 more
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Household air pollution and its effects on health [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2016
Household air pollution is a leading cause of disability-adjusted life years in Southeast Asia and the third leading cause of disability-adjusted life years globally.
Komalkirti Apte, Sundeep Salvi
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Exposure to household air pollution from cooking fuel in Ugandan households and associated household factors: a retrospective analysis of demographic and health survey data

The Lancet Global Health, 2022
Background: Household air pollution is mostly caused by cooking fuel. We describe the trend in household air pollution (HAP) caused by several types of cooking fuel used in Ugandan households from 2001 to 2016 and explore the household factors associated
Derrick Bary Abila, BSc, Racheal Nalunkuma, MBCHB, Sulaiman Bugosera Wasukira, MBCHB, Provia Ainembabazi, BSN, Elizabeth Kiyingi Nakiyingi, Asia Mustafa, BSc, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi, BPharm, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno, III, PhD   +7 more
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Quantifying potential particulate matter intake dose in a low-income community in South Africa

Clean Air Journal, 2021
Understanding how exposure to particulate matter impacts human health is complex. Personal exposure is a function of the pollution concentrations measured at any given place and time.
Bianca Wernecke, Roelof P Burger, Brigitte Language, Caradee Y Wright, Stuart J Piketh   +4 more
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Determinants of personal exposure to PM2.5 and black carbon in Chinese adults: A repeated-measures study in villages using solid fuel energy

Environment International, 2021
Exposure to air pollution is a leading health risk factor. The variance components and contributions of indoor versus outdoor source determinants of personal exposure to air pollution are poorly understood, especially in settings of household solid fuel ...
Martha Lee, Ellison Carter, Li Yan, Queenie Chan, Paul Elliott, Majid Ezzati, Frank Kelly, James J. Schauer, Yangfeng Wu, Xudong Yang, Liancheng Zhao, Jill Baumgartner   +11 more
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Quantifying Air Pollution Vulnerability and its Distributional Consequences

Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal, 2019
This paper estimates Vulnerability Index of air pollution in Delhi taking into account exposure, susceptibility and coping capacity of households. A general health production function model and a vulnerability assessment framework are used for this ...
Shivani Gupta , Sukanya Das , M.N. Murty   +2 more
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Household Air Pollution and Acute Lower Respiratory Infections in Adults: A Systematic Review.

PLoS ONE, 2016
IntroductionHousehold air pollution from solid fuel burning kills over 4 million people every year including half a million children from acute lower respiratory infections. Although biologically plausible, it is not clear whether household air pollution
Hannah Jary, Hope Simpson, Deborah Havens, Geoffrey Manda, Daniel Pope, Nigel Bruce, Kevin Mortimer   +6 more
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Household air pollution, chronic respiratory disease and pneumonia in Malawian adults: A case-control study [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

Wellcome Open Research, 2017
Background: Four million people die each year from diseases caused by exposure to household air pollution. There is an association between exposure to household air pollution and pneumonia in children (half a million attributable deaths a year); however,
Hannah R. Jary, Stephen Aston, Antonia Ho, Emanuele Giorgi, Newton Kalata, Mulinda Nyirenda, Jane Mallewa, Ingrid Peterson, Stephen B. Gordon, Kevin Mortimer   +9 more
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Air pollution and the mystery of high household savings in China

Heliyon
Despite consumption being a key measure of residential welfare, the relationship of the residential savings rates, an inverse proxy for household consumption, with air pollution is unclear.
Jingwen Ding, Dandan Fan, Yuxia Guo, Qingqing Ning   +3 more
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Enhancing indoor air quality –The air filter advantage

Lung India, 2015
Air pollution has become the world's single biggest environmental health risk, linked to around 7 million deaths in 2012 according to a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report.
Vannan Kandi Vijayan, Haralappa Paramesh, Sundeep Santosh Salvi, Alpa Anil Kumar Dalal   +3 more
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