Impact of biogas digesters on wood utilisation and self-reported back pain for women living on rural Kenyan smallholder dairy farms

Global Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 221-235

  Dohoo, Carolyn ^a   VanLeeuwen, John ^a,b   Read Guernsey, Judith ^a,b   Critchley, Kim ^b   Gibson, Mark ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

biogas digester; dairy farm; global health; Kenya; wood fuel

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; HOT WATER;

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLEANING; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KENYA; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MONEY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL AREA; SELF REPORT; WOOD;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACK PAIN; BIOFUELS; CATTLE; COOKING; DAIRYING; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KENYA; MANURE; MIDDLE AGED; PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND; QUALITY OF LIFE; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT LIFTING; WOOD;

EID: 84874192110     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2012.758299     Document Type: Article

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