Promoting LPG usage during pregnancy: A pilot study in rural Maharashtra, India

Household air pollution from the combustion of biomass and coal is estimated to cause approximately 780,000 premature deaths a year in India. The government has responded by promoting uptake of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by tens of millions of poor rural families. Many poor households with new LP...

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Main Authors: Ajay Pillarisetti, Makarand Ghorpade, Sathish Madhav, Arun Dhongade, Sudipto Roy, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Sambandam Sankar, Rutuja Patil, David I. Levine, Sanjay Juvekar, Kirk R. Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-06-01
Series:Environment International
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412019301369