Millions Dead: How Do We Know and What Does It Mean? Methods Used in the Comparative Risk Assessment of Household Air Pollution

R. Smith, Kirk; Bruce, Nigel; Balakrishnan, Kalpana; Adair‐Rohani, Heather; R. Balmes, John; Chafe, Zoë; Dherani, Mukesh; Dean Hosgood, H.; Mehta, Sumi; Pope, Daniel; Rehfuess, Eva

doi:10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032013-182356

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Millions Dead: How Do We Know and What Does It Mean? Methods Used in the Comparative Risk Assessment of Household Air Pollution

Published in Annual Review of Public Health • Mar 18, 2014

Authors:

Kirk R. Smith

Nigel Bruce

Kalpana Balakrishnan

Abstract

In the Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) done as part of the Global Burden of Disease project (GBD-2010), the global and regional burdens of household air pollution (HAP) due to the use of solid cookfuels, were estimated along with 60+ other risk factors. This article describes how the HAP CRA was f...

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Environmental health

Air pollution

Risk assessment

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