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Firewood, smoke and respiratory diseases in developing countries-The neglected role of outdoor cooking

PloS one, 2017-06, Vol.12 (6), p.e0178631-e0178631 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

COPYRIGHT 2017 Public Library of Science ;COPYRIGHT 2017 Public Library of Science ;2017 Jörg Langbein. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;2017 Jörg Langbein 2017 Jörg Langbein ;ISSN: 1932-6203 ;EISSN: 1932-6203 ;DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178631 ;PMID: 28658290

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Title:
Firewood, smoke and respiratory diseases in developing countries-The neglected role of outdoor cooking
Author: Langbein, Jörg
Mortimer, Kevin
Subjects: Air pollution ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Child, Preschool ; Children ; Claiming ; Cooking ; Cooking - methods ; Developing Countries ; Diseases ; Earth Sciences ; Engineering and Technology ; Fuelwood ; Health aspects ; Health hazards ; Health risks ; Heating ; Households ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Influence ; LDCs ; Medicine and Health Sciences ; Outdoor ; Outdoor air quality ; Outdoor cooking ; People and Places ; Physical Sciences ; Regression analysis ; Respiration Disorders - etiology ; Respiratory diseases ; Respiratory tract diseases ; Risk factors ; Smoke ; Studies ; Wood
Is Part Of: PloS one, 2017-06, Vol.12 (6), p.e0178631-e0178631
Description: Smoke from cooking in the kitchen is one of the world's leading causes of premature child death, claiming the lives of 500,000 children under five annually. This study analyses the role of outdoor cooking and the prevalence of respiratory diseases among children under five years by means of probit regressions using information from 41 surveys conducted in 30 developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America. I find that outdoor cooking reduces respiratory diseases among young children aged 0-4 by around 9 percent, an effect that reaches 13 percent among children aged 0-1. The results suggest that simple behavioral interventions, such as promoting outdoor cooking, can have a substantial impact on health hazards.
Publisher: United States: Public Library of Science
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
EISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178631
PMID: 28658290
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Firewood, smoke and respiratory diseases in developing countries-The neglected role of outdoor cooking

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