Household Air Pollution in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Health Risks and Research Priorities
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1 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, 2 John E. Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, 3 National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, 4 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America, 5 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, 6 MEASURE Evaluation Project at the Carolina Population Center and the Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, 7 School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 8 Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, 9 Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury and Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 10 Division of Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 11 Palladian Partners, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, 12 Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, 13 Women’s Refugee Commission, New York, New York, United States of America, 14 FHI 360, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, 15 School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, 16 Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, 17 Department of Public Health and Policy at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom and the Department of Public Health and Environment at the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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