Domestic energy usage and its' health implications on residents of the Ese‐Odo and Okitipupa local government areas of Ondo state, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined domestic energy usage and its health implication on residents of Ese-Odo and Okitipupa Local Government Areas (LGA), of Ondo State. Systematic random sampling was used to select 103 and 156 respondents in Ese-Odo and Okitipupa LGA, respectively. It was established that environmental and socioeconomic related attributes influenced residents' choice of domestic energy type. Similarly, burns, blindness, stroke, cataract and pulmonary diseases were the most prevalent self-reported ill-health. A relatively weak correlation between domestic energy usage and ill-health is experienced by the residents. Therefore, the study concluded that the use of traditional energy types had significant adverse effects on the health of the residents in Okitipupa and Ese-Odo LGAs of Ondo State. K E Y W O R D S domestic energy usage, health of residents, households' energy, self-reported ill-health of energy for cooking, heating, and lighting (Kowsari & Zerriffi, 2011). Such traditional biomass fuels are widely used particularly in developing countries. For instance, Onoja (2012) argued that evidence from China has shown that there are considerable numbers of households that are stick to traditional biomass fuel use despite their access to

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