IAP Bibliographic Portal - May 2008

• New Studies/Resources
• Fact Sheets
• Bibliographies/Reference
• Newsletters
• Websites

A. New /Studies

• Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2007, 4(4), 283-288. Effects of Cooking Fuels on Acute Respiratory Infections in Children in Tanzania (pdf, fulltext) James H. Kilabuko. The findings suggest that to achieve meaningful reduction of ARI prevalence in Tanzania, a shift from the use of biomass fuels, charcoal and kerosene for cooking to clean fuels such as gas and electricity may be essential. Further studies, however, are needed for concrete policy recommendation.
  
  
• Environmental Health Perspectives, Articles in Press. Comparison of Particulate Matter from Biomass-Burning Rural and Non-Biomass Burning Urban Households in Northeastern China (pdf, full-text). Ruoting Jiang and Michelle L. Bell. Findings indicate that biomass burning for cooking contributes substantially to indoor particulate levels, and that this exposure is particularly elevated for cooks. Second-by-second personal PM2.5 exposures revealed differences in exposures by population group and strong temporal heterogeneity that would be obscured by aggregate metrics.
  
  
• Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 116, Number 4, April 2008. Prenatal Exposure to Wood Fuel Smoke and Low Birth Weight (pdf, full-text). Amna R. Siddiqui, et al. Conclusion: Cooking with wood fuel during pregnancy, a potentially modifiable exposure, was associated with LBW and marginally lower mean birth weight compared with using NG.

B. Fact Sheets

• Indoor air pollution and health. WHO, 2005. (html)

C. Bibliographies/Reference

• WHO - Indoor air pollution and lower respiratory tract infections in children (pdf, 735KB). This publication reports on a symposium and workshop held at the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology, Paris, 4 September 2006. It presents preliminary results of a randomized intervention trial in Guatemala and discusses the implications for policy, advocacy and future research.
  
  
• Improving indoor air quality for poor families: a controlled experiment in Bangladesh. December 2007. by Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, M Khaliquzzaman, and David Wheeler. (pdf, 1MB)
  This paper reports on an experiment that studied the use of construction materials, space configurations, cooking locations, and household ventilation practices (use of doors and windows) as potentially-important determinants of indoor air pollution. Results from controlled experiments in Bangladesh are analyzed to test whether changes in these determinants can have significant effects on indoor air pollution. Analysis of the data shows, for example, that pollution from the cooking area diffuses into living spaces rapidly and completely.
  
• WHO - Indoor air pollution from solid fuels and risk of low birth weight and stillbirth, ( pdf, 657KB). This publication reports on a symposium held at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) in Johannesburg in September 2005. The findings are complemented by a PubMed search of the link between indoor air pollution from solid fuel use and low birth weight and perinatal mortality.
  
  
• Randomized Exposure Study of Pollution Indoors and Respiratory Effects (RESPIRE).The purpose of study was to better understand the relationship between acute respiratory infections in children and exposure to indoor air pollution.
  
  
• Dasgupta S, Huq M, Khaliquzzaman M, Pandey K, Wheeler D. Indoor air quality for poor families: new evidence from Bangladesh. Indoor Air. 2006 Dec;16(6):426-44. (Abstract)
  
  
• Mishra V, Retherford RD. Does biofuel smoke contribute to anaemia and stunting in early childhood? Int J Epidemiol. 2006 Nov 3 (Abstract)
  
  
• WHO. "Fuel for Life: Household Energy and Health, 2006. The report gives an overview of the health impacts of indoor air pollution from solid fuel use and describes solutions to promote health and development in the context of the household energy challenge.
  
  
• Information on cooking and heating practices - WHO. Increasingly, international household surveys, such as the World Health Survey (WHO), the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (UNICEF) and the Demographic and Health Survey (ORCMacro/USAID) collect information on household energy practice.
  
  
• National burden of disease due to indoor air polution - WHO. The national burden of disease due to indoor air pollution from solid fuel use was assessed for the year 2002. In addition to total deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to indoor air pollution, country-by-country estimates are also available for deaths due to acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) among children as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer among adults.
  
  
• Kammen, D.; et al. Broad-search annotated bibliography on acute respiratory infections and indoor air pollution (with emphasis on chilren under five in developing countries (pdf, 463KB). Environmental Health Project, December 1998.
  
  
• McCracken, J.; et al. An annotated bibliography on prevention of acute respiratory infections and indoor air pollution (with emphasis on children in developing countries (pdf, 295KB). Environmental Health Project, June 1997.

D. Newsletters

• USAID's Energy Update Jan/Feb 2007 - Fueling Health Solutions: The Energy Health Nexus. (pdf, 876KB)
  
  
• Partnership for Clean Indoor Air Bulletin, October 2006. (pdf)
  
  
• USAID Contributions to Household Energy and Health, (from the PCIA Bulletin, June 2006 - pdf file, 30KB)

E. Websites

• Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA). The mission of PCIA is to improve health, livelihood and quality of life by reducing exposure to air pollution, primarily among women and children, from household energy use.
  
  
• Kirk Smith's Web Site - Kirk R. Smith is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and holds the Maxwell Endowed Chair in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. His research work focuses on environmental and health issues in developing countries, particularly those related to health-damaging and climate-changing air pollution, and includes ongoing field projects in India, China, Nepal, Mexico, and Guatemala.
  
  
• RESPIRE/Guatemala Studies and Information - Professor KIrk Smith's website contains the published journal articles and other information about the RESPIRE projectt.
  
  
• WHO Indoor Air Pollution - WHO's Program on Indoor Air Pollution focuses on: Research and evaluation, Capacity building and Evidence for policy-makers.
  
  
• WHO - Indoor Air Pollution and Household Energy - The directory provides links to web-accessible resources in categories of relevance to policymaking.