Indoor air quality for poor families: New evidence from Bangladesh

Indoor Air

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 426-444

  Dasgupta, S ^a   Huq, M ^b   Khaliquzzaman, M ^a   Pandey, K ^a   Wheeler, D ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b Development Policy Group   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Cost effective.; Indoor Air Pollution; Particulates

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BIOMASS; BUILDING MATERIALS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; HEALTH HAZARDS; KITCHENS; NATURAL GAS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VENTILATION;

BANGLADESH; BIOMASS FUELS; COST EFFECTIVE; COST-EFFECTIVE.; FUEL CHOICES; FUEL USE; INDOOR POLLUTION; PARTICULATES; PM 10; POLLUTION LEVEL;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

EID: 33750707239     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: 16000668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2006.00436.x     Document Type: Article

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