Health benefits from reducing indoor air pollution from household solid fuel use in China - Three abatement scenarios

Environment International

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 831-840

  Mestl, Heidi Elizabeth Staff ^a   Aunan, Kristin ^a   Seip, Hans Martin ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

China; Exposure; Health; Indoor air pollution; Rural; Solid fuels; Urban

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; HEALTH HAZARDS; PULMONARY DISEASES;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; SOLID FUEL;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

FUEL;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FUEL; HEALTH IMPACT; INDOOR AIR; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHINA; DEATH; HEALTH; HOUSEHOLD; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34250791316     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2007.03.012     Document Type: Article

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