High ambient air pollution erodes the benefits of using clean cooking fuel in preventing low birth weight in India

High ambient air pollution erodes the benefits of using clean cooking fuel in preventing low birth weight in India

A large fraction of the population in rural India continues to use biomass fuel for cooking and heating. In-utero exposure to the resulting household air pollution (HAP), is known to increase the risk of low birth weight (LBW). Mitigating HAP, by shifting to clean cooking fuel (CCF), is expected to...

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Main Authors: Ritu Parchure, Ekta Chaudhary, Shrinivas Darak, Santu Ghosh, Alok Kumar, Sagnik Dey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
ambient air pollution
household air pollution
low birth weight
clean cooking fuel
India
National Family Health Survey
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad18e0

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