Daily average exposures to respirable particulate matter from combustion of biomass fuels in rural households of southern India.

Balakrishnan, Kalpana; Sambandam, Sankar; K. Parikh, Jyoti; Padmavathi, Ramaswamy; Srividya, Kailasam; Venugopal, Vidhya; Prasad, Swarna; Laxmi Pandey, Vijay

doi:10.1289/ehp.021101069

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Daily average exposures to respirable particulate matter from combustion of biomass fuels in rural households of southern India.

Published in Environmental Health Perspectives • Nov 1, 2002

Authors:

Kalpana Balakrishnan

Sankar Sambandam

Jyoti K. Parikh

Abstract

Indoor air pollution resulting from combustion of biomass fuels in rural households of developing countries is now recognized as a major contributor to the global burden of disease. Accurate estimation of health risks has been hampered by a paucity of quantitative exposure information. In this study...

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Stove

Particulates

Environmental science

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