Improving Health with Improved Cooking Stoves

Improving biomass cooking stoves is a powerful positive health intervention, especially in households that include children. Enclosing stoves prevents skirt fires, and burns that can be deadly or permanently disfiguring. Reducing emissions in cooking stoves, keeps those particles from building up in the lungs of babies, children and other family members, and improves survival rates from pneumonia, influenza, and other infections.

Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases, 1st edition May 2003
Prepared by UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP) Chemicals Geneva, Switzerland

Dioxins and their effects on human health
World Health Organization, Fact sheet N°225 June 1999

Assessment of the health risk of dioxins: re-evaluation of the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI)

Situación epidemiológica internacional
WHO 2006

Las inversiones para promover el uso de combustibles domésticos más limpios rinden importantes beneficios sanitarios y económicos.

Efectos de los combustibles de biomasa en el aparato respiratorio
Dr. Roberto Accineli
LABORATORIO DE RESPIRACIÓN DEL INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES DE LA ALTURA

ESTUFAS AHORRADORAS DE LEÑA PARA PALIAR LAS INFECCIONES RESPIRATORIAS
Informativos.net jueves, 07 de abril de 2005

Las infecciones respiratorias agudas (IRA) representan uno de los problemas principales de salud entre los niños menores de 5 años de los países en desarrollo. En América Latina, las IRA figuran entre las primeras cinco causas de defunción de menores de 5 años y representan la causa principal de enfermedad y consulta a los servicios de salud.

Asia Regional Cookstove Program Letter from the Secretariat May-June 2006 (pdf)

Feature:
WHO Inter-Regional Training Workshop on Indoor Air Pollution and Household Energy

Air Pollution and Respiratory Health among Honduran Women (2 MB pdf)poster
M.L. Clark,1 J.L. Peel,1 S. Conway,2 J.B. Burch,3 S.J. Reynolds 1 2006

1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; 2Trees Water & People, Fort Collins, CO; 3University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

SER IAPSER IAP

ABSTRACT

Small Scale Biomass Systems, Renewable Energy: ER 120
Dan Kammen, Renewable Apprpriate Energy Laboratory, US Berekely, January 2002

National burden of disease in India from indoor air pollution
Kirk Smith, 2000
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360; and East-West Center, Honolulu, HI 96848

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