Impact of indoor air pollution from the use of solid fuels on the incidence of life threatening respiratory illnesses in children in India Environmental and occupational health

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Upadhyay, Ashish Kumar ^a   Singh, Abhishek ^a   Kumar, Kaushalendra ^a   Singh, Ashish ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

India; Indoor air pollution; Life threatening respiratory illnesses; Panel data; Two stage random effects regression; Young Lives Study

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHILD; COOKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COOKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84927710911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1631-7     Document Type: Article

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