Household air pollution generated from solid fuel use for cooking is one of the leading risk factors for ill-health globally. Deployment of advanced cookstoves to reduce emissions has been a major focus of intervention efforts. However, household usage of these stoves and resulting changes in usage of traditional polluting stoves is not well characterized. In Palwal District, Haryana, India, we...

SETTING Rural settings of Sidama Zone in southern Ethiopia. OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between exposure to biomass fuel smoke and tuberculosis (TB). DESIGN A matched case control study in which cases were adult smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients on DOTS-based treatment at rural health institutions. Age-matched controls were recruited from the community. RES...

Exposure to household wood smoke from cooking is a risk factor for chronic obstructive lung disease among women in developing countries. The Randomized Exposure Study of Pollution Indoors and Respiratory Effects (RESPIRE) is a randomized intervention trial evaluating the respiratory health effects of reducing indoor air pollution from open cooking fires. A total of 504 rural Mayan women in high...

Household air pollution (HAP) is one of the leading causes of respiratory illness and deaths among children under five years in Bangladesh. This study investigates the association between HAP from cooking fuel and under-five mortality using Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) datasets over the period 2004-2011 (n = 18,308 children), and the extent to which this association differed ...

Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is transmitted by aerosolized droplets nuclei. Home is the vulnerable place for transmission of this disease to its contacts. Risk factors associated with this contact transmission may differ according to locality. This study aims to determine the prevalence of household contact (HC) PTB and examine the risk factors contributing to it. A cross-sectional study was co...

Cook stoves that produce biochar as well as heat for cooking could help mitigate indoor air pollution from cooking fires and could enhance local soils, while their potential reductions in carbon (C) emissions and increases in soil C sequestration could offer access to C market financing. We use system dynamics modeling to (i) investigate the climate change impact of prototype and refined biocha...

Over half of the world's population is exposed to household air pollution from the burning of solid fuels at home. Household air pollution from solid fuel use is a leading risk factor for global disease and remains a major public health problem, especially in low- and mid-income countries. This is a particularly serious problem in China, where many people in rural areas still use coal for house...

Unasylva 224, Vol. 57, 2006 Alarge part of the world’s population uses fuelwood for household cooking and space heating, mostly in developing countries. Energy from traditional biomass fuel is thought to account for nearly one-tenth of all human energy demand today (more than hydro and nuclear power together), and wood-based fuels probably make up some two-thirds of household use. In poor devel...

background: spinach is one of the vegetables with a high concentration of nitrate which is affected by various processes such as cooking and refrigeration before consumption. the present study aimed to investigate the effect of home cooking method, which has not been studied before, on the level of nitrate and nitrite in spinach. the effect of refrigeration was studied, as well.   methods: afte...

Reflecting the increasing importance of handling multimedia data, many studies are made on indexing to TV broadcast video. Following this trend, we recognize the importance of cooking programs and trying to analyze and index them. In this paper, we propose the shot clustering method using background information, which is one of the most important elemental techniques for indexing to cooking vid...