Household air pollution and childhood pneumonia in South Sudan: will clean cooking stoves reduce the incidence and mortality?

Household air pollution and childhood pneumonia in South Sudan: will clean cooking stoves reduce the incidence and mortality?

Pneumonia causes more childhood deaths compared to other infectious diseases. Studies have showed that young children exposed to household air pollution (smoke) caused by burning of unprocessed solid fuels such as wood, charcoal, crop waste, animal dung and coal had double the risk of pneumonia infe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gasim Omer Elkhalifa Abd-Elfarag, Charles O.C. Langoya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: South Sudan Doctors' Association 2016-05-01
Series:South Sudan Medical Journal
Subjects:
Household air pollution
childhood pneumonia
South Sudan
clean cooking stoves
Online Access:http://www.southsudanmedicaljournal.com/archive/may-2016/household-air-pollution-and-childhood-pneumonia-in-south-sudan-will-clean-cooking-stoves-reduce-the-incidence-and-mortality.html

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http://www.southsudanmedicaljournal.com/archive/may-2016/household-air-pollution-and-childhood-pneumonia-in-south-sudan-will-clean-cooking-stoves-reduce-the-incidence-and-mortality.html

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