Cooking practices, air quality, and the acceptability of advanced cookstoves in Haryana, India: an exploratory study to inform large-scale interventions

Cooking practices, air quality, and the acceptability of advanced cookstoves in Haryana, India: an exploratory study to inform large-scale interventions

Background: In India, approximately 66% of households rely on dung or woody biomass as fuels for cooking. These fuels are burned under inefficient conditions, leading to household air pollution (HAP) and exposure to smoke containing toxic substances. Large-scale intervention efforts need to be infor...

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Main Authors: Rupak Mukhopadhyay, Sankar Sambandam, Ajay Pillarisetti, Darby Jack, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Mayur Vaswani, Michael N. Bates, Patrick L. Kinney, Narendra Arora, Kirk R. Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2012-09-01
Series:Global Health Action
Subjects:
household air pollution
dung fuel
solid fuel
stove usage
exposure assessment
Online Access:http://www.globalhealthaction.net/index.php/gha/article/view/19016/pdf_1

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