title: Air pollution from household solid fuel combustion in India: an overview of exposure and health related information to inform health research priorities.
abstract: Environmental and occupational risk factors contribute to nearly 40% of the national burden of disease in India, with air pollution in the indoor and outdoor environment ranking amongst leading risk factors. It is now recognized that the health burden from air pollution exposures that primarily occur in the rural indoors, from pollutants released during the incomplete combustion of solid fuels in households, may rival or even exceed the burden attributable to urban outdoor exposures. Few environmental epidemiological efforts have been devoted to this setting, however. We provide an overview of important available information on exposures and health effects related to household solid fuel use in India, with a view to inform health research priorities for household air pollution and facilitate being able to address air pollution within an integrated rural-urban framework in the future.
authors: ICMR Center for Advanced Research on Environmental Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. kalpanasrmc@vsnl.com
authors: Kalpana
authors: K
authors: Balakrishnan
authors: Padmavathi
authors: P
authors: Ramaswamy
authors: Sankar
authors: S
authors: Sambandam
authors: Gurusamy
authors: G
authors: Thangavel
authors: Santu
authors: S
authors: Ghosh
authors: Priscilla
authors: P
authors: Johnson
authors: Krishnendu
authors: K
authors: Mukhopadhyay
authors: Vidhya
authors: V
authors: Venugopal
authors: Vijayalakshmi
authors: V
authors: Thanasekaraan
mesh_terms: D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000032:analysis*; D003031:Coal / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003296:Cooking; D004782:Environmental Health; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D019570:Inhalation Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000032:analysis*; D008297:Male; D012906:Smoke / Q000009:adverse effects
chemical_list: D003031:Coal; D012906:Smoke