BACKGROUND More than two fifths of the world's population cook with solid fuels and are exposed to household air pollution (HAP). As of now, no studies have assessed whether switching to alternative fuels like biogas could impact cardiovascular health among cooks previously exposed to solid fuel use. METHODS We conducted a propensity score matched cross-sectional study to explore if the susta...

Energy use is central to human society and provides many health benefits. But each source of energy entails some health risks. This article reviews the health impacts of each major source of energy, focusing on those with major implications for the burden of disease globally. The biggest health impacts accrue to the harvesting and burning of solid fuels, coal and biomass, mainly in the form of ...

background and purpose: it is extremely important to recognize the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of this type of waste before any planning on them due to the lack of the prepared program in the field of household hazardous waste (hhw) management in the country. this research has been done in babol, iran, in order to achieve this important goal. materials and methods: the cross-se...

BACKGROUND Environmental issues and shortage of fossil fuels have turned the public interest to the utilization of renewable, environmentally friendly fuels, such as ethanol. In order to minimize the competition between fuels and food production, researchers are focusing their efforts to the utilization of wastes and by-products as raw materials for the production of ethanol. household food was...

BACKGROUND Exposure to household air pollution (HAP) from inefficient biomass and coal stoves kills nearly 4 million people every year worldwide. HAP is an environmental risk associated with poverty that affects an estimated 3 billion people mostly in low- and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVES Our goal was to estimate the number of low-income Americans exposed to potentially health-damaging...

A series of animal and human studies of cancer were begun in China in the 1980s due to the generally high concentrations of air pollution from burning coal for fuel. Coal was widely used in China; in fact, in Xuan Wei County, Yunnan Province, mortality from lung cancer is among the highest in China and could not be accounted for by tobacco or occupational exposures. The emissions from smoky coa...

Household burning of solid fuels in traditional stoves is detrimental to health, the environment and development. A range of improved solid fuel stoves (IS) are available but little is known about successful approaches to dissemination. This qualitative systematic review aimed to identify factors that influence household uptake of IS in low- and middle-income countries. Extensive searches were ...

conclusions considering the weight percentage of food wastes (70%), solid wastes of babolsar city could be used for composting. also as large quantities of infectious wastes were produced by hospitals of babolsar, it is recommended that sterilization systems (hydroclave) be used for decontamination of these hazardous wastes. materials and methods this study was a descriptive and cross-sectional...

More than 2 billion people rely on solid fuels and traditional stoves or open fires for cooking, lighting, and/or heating. Exposure to emissions caused by burning these fuels is believed to be responsible for a significant share of the global burden of disease. To achieve widespread health improvements, interventions that reduce exposures to indoor air pollution will need to be adopted and cons...