Household air pollution and childhood pneumonia in South Sudan: will clean cooking stoves reduce the incidence and mortality?
Pneumonia causes more childhood deaths compared to other infectious diseases. Studies have showed that young children exposed to household air pollution (smoke) caused by burning of unprocessed solid fuels such as wood, charcoal, crop waste, animal dung and coal had double the risk of pneumonia infe...
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| Language: | English |
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Health and Social Sciences Research Institute - South Sudan (HSSRI-SS)
2016-05-01
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| Series: | South Sudan Medical Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.southsudanmedicaljournal.com/archive/may-2016/household-air-pollution-and-childhood-pneumonia-in-south-sudan-will-clean-cooking-stoves-reduce-the-incidence-and-mortality.html |