A review of diseases associated with household air pollution due to the use of biomass fuels

Kim, Ki‐Hyun; Jahan, Shamin Ara; Kabir, Ehsanul

doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.05.087

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“…Rather than focusing on the evaluation of causal relationships the emphasis was put on designing a simple methodology which could potentially be used by local authorities and community workers. This endeavour is in line with the suggestions of most research or interventions studies in this field who emphasize the role of community members and local authorities in successful implementation of intervention strategies 5,6,10,28 .…”

Section: Short Term Monitoring As a Methodssupporting

confidence: 68%

“…There have also been indications of relationships between biomass-related pollution and other health effects including low birth weight, ischaemic heart dis-ease, nasopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer or lung cancer 10,12,26 . The evidence for these relationships is of varying quality, owing to methodological difficulties including the need for randomisation and/or a proper control group, or adjustment for confounding factors such as socio-economic status, behavioural factors and others.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…5,8,9 . Exposure to pollutants from biomass has been linked by a number of studies to respiratory infections (upper and lower respiratory tract infection, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -COPD, tuberculosis, lung cancer, asthma) and non-respiratory illness (low birth weight and infant mortality, cardiovascular disease, cataracts, nasopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer) [10][11][12][13] . Poverty appears to be the main barrier to adopting clean fuels, so the poorest communities are expected to continue using biomass 2 .…”

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Assessment of the biomass related indoor air pollution in Kwale district in Kenya using short term monitoring

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Background: Indoor air pollution remains an important health problem in some countries. Although research data on this issue is available, routine monitoring in affected areas is limited. The aims of this study were to quantify exposure to biomass-related indoor air pollution; assess the respiratory health of subjects; and explore the feasibility of routine monitoring in Kwale district, Kenya. Methods:We sampled 125 rural houses using short-term monitoring for levels of CO, CO 2 and TSP. Additional exposure information was obtained using a checklist. Respiratory health was also assessed using a questionnaire, and electronic spirometer in 172 inhabitants. Results:The overall median levels of CO in the sampled houses on all study sites ranged from 5.9 (IQR 3-14.5) to 10 (5.5-21.2) mg/m3, levels of CO 2 ranged from 774 (IQR 724-846) to 839 (IQR 749-961) mg/m3) and the levels of TSP ranged from 295 (IQR 79-853 to 1384 (IQR 557-3110) µg/m 3 which indicates that safe levels recommended by WHO and USEPA could be exceeded. Relatively high incidences of respiratory illness or symptoms were reported and the spirometry readings suggested impaired lung function in over 80% of respondents. Conclusion: Our results quantify that the use of biomass fuel can give rise to high levels of indoor air pollution. Given that poor lung function contributes to public health problems in rural regions of East Africa, such as Kwale in Kenya, our findings create grounds for more detailed investigations of the problem and may provide motivation for community based interventions.

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Section: The Indicators Of Pulmonary Healthmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Assessment of the biomass related indoor air pollution in Kwale district in Kenya using short term monitoring

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“…Biomass fuels have been well documented from ancient China to the present [78] and indoor fires remain the dominant source of cooking fuel for approximately 40% of the world's population today [38]. This source of combustion is associated with many adverse health outcomes, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, lung cancer, low birth weight, cataracts and cardiovascular events [79]. At the global scale, household air pollution is currently estimated to be responsible for the greatest number of annual deaths from air pollution [27].…”

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The pyrohealth transition: how combustion emissions have shaped health through human history

Johnston

Melody

Bowman

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Air pollution from landscape fires, domestic fires and fossil fuel combustion is recognized as the single most important global environmental risk factor for human mortality and is associated with a global burden of disease almost as large as that of tobacco smoking. The shift from a reliance on biomass to fossil fuels for powering economies, broadly described as the pyric transition, frames key patterns in human fire usage and landscape fire activity. These have produced distinct patters of human exposure to air pollution associated with the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions and post-industrial the Earth global system-wide changes increasingly known as the Anthropocene. Changes in patterns of human fertility, mortality and morbidity associated with economic development have been previously described in terms of demographic, epidemiological and nutrition transitions, yet these frameworks have not explicitly considered the direct consequences of combustion emissions for human health. To address this gap, we propose a pyrohealth transition and use data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) collaboration to compare direct mortality impacts of emissions from landscape fires, domestic fires, fossil fuel combustion and the global epidemic of tobacco smoking. Improving human health and reducing the environmental impacts on the Earth system will require a considerable reduction in biomass and fossil fuel combustion. This article is part of the themed issue ‘The interaction of fire and mankind’.

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“…Modeling has assisted in accounting for outdoor-indoor differences in the United States and Europe, though this approach is hindered by heterogeneity of indoor combustion conditions throughout the rest of the world. Characterization of outdoor-indoor exposures including activity patterns of a healthy, normal population continues to lag behind relative to other measures (Clausen et al, 2011;Diapouli et al, 2013;Kim et al, 2011;Mercier et al, 2011).…”

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Public health and components of particulate matter: The changing assessment of black carbon

Eklúnd¹,

Chow

Greenbaum

et al. 2014

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association

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A review of diseases associated with household air pollution due to the use of biomass fuels

Cited by 219 publications

References 64 publications

Assessment of the biomass related indoor air pollution in Kwale district in Kenya using short term monitoring

Assessment of the biomass related indoor air pollution in Kwale district in Kenya using short term monitoring

The pyrohealth transition: how combustion emissions have shaped health through human history

Public health and components of particulate matter: The changing assessment of black carbon

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