Globally, around three billion people depend upon solid fuels such as firewood, dry animal dung, crop residues, or coal, and use traditional stoves for cooking heating purposes. This fuel combustion causes indoor air pollution (IAP) severely impairs health the environment, especially in developing countries like Pakistan. A number of alternative household energy strategies can be adopted to mit...

Exposure to indoor air pollution (IAP) from cooking with solid fuels affects 2.8 billion people in developing countries, including children and pregnant women. It also increases the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes such as low birthweight. This review aims examine relationship IAP birthweight.A systematic literature search was performed using PubMed, CINAHL, global health Google Scholar elect...

the present study aims to analyze the existing indoor environmental conditions of firozabad city along with its impact on people’s health by going through the correlative index of indoor environment’s determinant and different diseases, faced by the people. in order to measure spatial disparities, the statistical technique, i.e. the standard score additive model (z- score), has been applied to ...

conclusions the presence of fungi in the nasal cavity and indoors of healthy subjects in this study suggests that fungi should be considered as health hazards. furthermore, it is important and seems necessary to monitor indoor air quality and raise awareness of existing threats due to microorganisms, including fungi. results the most common fungi isolated from all samples were aspergillus, peni...

This year, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the results of an effort that brought together about 100 specialists from approximately 30 institutions worldwide to conduct the first large-scale coherent multi-risk-factor Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) ever done. Previous risk estimates, such as those for indoor air pollution (IAP), had been done independently from one another, lead...

Globally, almost 3 billion people rely on biomass (wood, charcoal, crop residues, and dung) and coal as their primary source of domestic energy. Exposure to indoor air pollution (IAP) from the combustion of solid fuels is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. In this paper, we review the current knowledge on the relationship between IAP exposure and disease and ...

BACKGROUND Indoor air pollution (IAP) from combustion of biomass fuels represents a global health problem, estimated to cause 1.6 million premature deaths annually. AIMS RESPIRE (Randomised Exposure Study of Pollution Indoors and Respiratory Effects) Guatemala is the first randomised controlled trial ever performed on health effects from solid fuel use. Its goal is to assess the effect of imp...

indoor environment. The most important include indoor pollutants, outdoor pollutants near the building, pollution transport through the ventilation system, air cleaning or filtration, and indoor climate (temperature and relative humidity). Many building materials, the furnishings and equipment, and the occupants and their activities are sources of indoor pollution. Following is a list of some o...

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking, passive smoking, and indoor air pollution from biomass fuels have been implicated as risk factors for tuberculosis (TB) infection, disease, and death. Tobacco smoking and indoor air pollution are persistent or growing exposures in regions where TB poses a major health risk. We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis to quantitatively assess the association be...

INTRODUCTION The present study examined indoor air quality in a global sample of smoke-free and smoking-permitted Irish pubs. We hypothesized that levels of respirable suspended particles, an important marker of secondhand smoke, would be significantly lower in smoke-free Irish pubs than in pubs that allowed smoking. METHODS Indoor air quality was assessed in 128 Irish pubs in 15 countries be...