Promoting LPG usage during pregnancy: A pilot study in rural Maharashtra, India

Pillarisetti, Ajay; Ghorpade, Makarand; Madhav, Sathish; Dhongade, Arun; Roy, Sudipto; Balakrishnan, Kalpana; Sambandam, Sankar; Patil, Rutuja; Levine, David I.; Juvekar, Sanjay; Smith, Kirk R.

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2019.04.017

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“…Larger subsidies for cylinder refills, informational campaigns that educate about the harms of air pollution exposure, and behavioural campaigns that change attitudes, are three potential avenues worth exploring. Pillarisetti et al (2019) report on a pilot study in rural Maharashtra testing free LPG refills, a monetary incentive to use LPG, and health messaging. More such studies should be conducted.…”

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Persistence of solid fuel use despite increases in LPG ownership: New survey evidence from rural north India

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Solid fuel use is an important contributor to air pollution and disease burden in India. We present survey evidence documenting LPG ownership and cooking fuel use in rural north India. LPG ownership has increased rapidly, substantially driven by the Ujjwala Yojana. Three-quarters of rural households in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh now have LPG. Almost all of these households also have a stove that uses solid fuels, and among those owning both, almost three-quarters used solid fuels the day before the survey. Household economic status, relative costs of cooking fuels, gender inequality, and beliefs regarding the ease, food taste, and health impacts of cooking with solid fuels versus LPG are important contributors to high solid fuel use despite LPG ownership. Households that continue to use solid fuels continue to expose themselves and their neighbours to harmful air pollution. To realize the full health benefits of Ujjwala’s expansion in LPG ownership, attention must now be turned towards discouraging the use of solid fuels and promoting exclusive use of LPG. This is an urgent priority for research, policy, and action.

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Persistence of solid fuel use despite increases in LPG ownership: New survey evidence from rural north India

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Vyas²,

Hathi³

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“…Previous studies of household air pollution interventions relied primarily on Maxim iButton temperature data loggers [8,13,15], which have limited memory and temperature sensing ranges, or low-cost thermocouple data-loggers [16,20]. The Geocene Dots used in HAPIN use k-type thermocouples.…”

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“…Sustainability 2020, 12,1805 3 of 15 In our prior work [9,[15][16][17], the operational costs of deploying traditional data loggers, including fieldworker training and compensation, data management and analysis, and interpretation of findings, outweighed the capital costs of the loggers. Additionally, because of the complexity of supervising field teams to deploy data loggers, quality checks and analytics are often delayed, which can result in errors with metadata, sensor placement, or other issues.…”

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An Integrated Sensor Data Logging, Survey, and Analytics Platform for Field Research and Its Application in HAPIN, a Multi-Center Household Energy Intervention Trial

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Researchers rely on sensor-derived data to gain insights on numerous human behaviors and environmental characteristics. While commercially available data-logging sensors can be deployed for a range of measurements, there have been limited resources for integrated hardware, software, and analysis platforms targeting field researcher use cases. In this paper, we describe Geocene, an integrated sensor data logging, survey, and analytics platform for field research. We provide an example of Geocene's ongoing use in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN). HAPIN is a large, multi-center, randomized controlled trial evaluating the impacts of a clean cooking fuel and stove intervention in Guatemala, India, Peru, and Rwanda. The platform includes Bluetooth-enabled, data-logging temperature sensors; a mobile application to survey participants, provision sensors, download sensor data, and tag sensor missions with metadata; and a cloud-based application for data warehousing, visualization, and analysis. Our experience deploying the Geocene platform within HAPIN suggests that the platform may have broad applicability to facilitate sensor-based monitoring and evaluation efforts and projects. This data platform can unmask heterogeneity in study participant behavior by using sensors that capture both compliance with and utilization of the Sustainability 2020, 12, 1805 2 of 15 intervention. Platforms like this could help researchers measure adoption of technology, collect more robust intervention and covariate data, and improve study design and impact assessments.

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“…Details of transforming raw stove use monitoring data into metrics of stove use have been described in detail previously. 28 Participant and public involvement Participants were not directly involved in the design of this project, as it was based on a national programme. However, the community from which participants were drawn assisted in review and revising of the messaging used to promote the intervention.…”

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Marriage-based pilot clean household fuel intervention in India for improved pregnancy outcomes

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IntroductionHealth interventions often target pregnant women and their unborn children. Interventions in rural India targeting pregnant women, however, often do not cover the critical early windows of susceptibility during the first trimester and parts of the second trimester. This pilot seeks to determine if targeting newlyweds could protect entire pregnancies with a clean stove and fuel intervention.MethodsWe recruited 50 newlywed couples who use biomass as a cooking fuel into a clean cooking intervention that included a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stove, two gas cylinders, a table to place the stove on and health education. We first evaluated whether community health workers in this region could identify and recruit couples at marriage. We quantified how many additional days of pregnancy could be covered by an intervention if we recruited at marriage versus recruiting after detection of pregnancy.ResultsOn average, we identified and visited newlywed couples within 40 (SD 21) days of marriage. Of the 50 couples recruited, 25 pregnancies and 18 deliveries were identified during this 1-year study. Due to challenges securing fuel from the LPG supply system, not all couples received their intervention prior to pregnancy. Regardless, couples recruited in the marriage arm had substantially more days with the intervention than couples recruited into a similar arm recruited at pregnancy (211 SD 46 vs 120 SD 45). At scale, a stove intervention targeting new marriages would cover about twice as many weeks of first pregnancies as an intervention recruiting after detection of pregnancy.ConclusionsWe were able to recruit in early marriage using existing community health workers. Households recruited early in marriage had more days with clean fuel coverage than those recruited at pregnancy. Our findings indicate that recruitment at marriage is feasible and warrants further exploration for stove and other interventions targeting pregnancy-related outcomes.

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Promoting LPG usage during pregnancy: A pilot study in rural Maharashtra, India

Cited by 51 publications

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Persistence of solid fuel use despite increases in LPG ownership: New survey evidence from rural north India

Persistence of solid fuel use despite increases in LPG ownership: New survey evidence from rural north India

An Integrated Sensor Data Logging, Survey, and Analytics Platform for Field Research and Its Application in HAPIN, a Multi-Center Household Energy Intervention Trial

Marriage-based pilot clean household fuel intervention in India for improved pregnancy outcomes

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