Health risks from poor malaria control, unsafe water, and indoor air pollution are responsible for an important share of the global disease burden-and they can be addressed by efficacious household health technologies that have existed for decades. However, coverage rates of these products among populations at risk remain disappointingly low. We conducted a review of the medical and public heal...

OBJECTIVE Characterising exposure to indoor air pollution arising from solid-fuel use in extremely poor Colombian households. METHODS Data from the September 2012 survey by Red Unidos (literally United Network, the Colombian government's official instrument for identifying extremely poor households: n=1.3 million households and >5 million people) was used for two logistic regression models: f...

There is a growing concern about Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) globally in hospitals, especially after the recent outbreak of diseases like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Swine Flu (H1N1) and other airborne infections such as Tuberculosis. The semi-arid climatic condition in the study area (Maiduguri, Nigeria) which is characterised by Harmattan dust blowing from the northeast, and preval...

Vapor intrusion from affected soils and groundwater into overlying structures has been identified as a potential mechanism for human exposure to volatile organic chemicals (VOCs), including petroleum hydrocarbons. However, in many cases, background concentrations of organic vapors in indoor air, associated with household products, vehicles, or ambient air, can lead to incorrect conclusions rega...

Indoor air pollution (IAP) from household use of biomass and coal is a leading environmental health risk in many developing nations. Much of the initial research on household energy technology overlooked the complex interactions of technological, behavioral, economic, and infrastructural factors that determine the success of environmental health interventions. Consequently, despite enormous int...

Air pollution is a serious problem that affects billions of people globally. Although the environmental and health costs of air pollution are well known, the present research investigates its ethical costs. We propose that air pollution can increase criminal and unethical behavior by increasing anxiety. Analyses of a 9-year panel of 9,360 U.S. cities found that air pollution predicted six major...

Environmental pollution is one of the serious crisis to which we are facing today. It is fact that three basic elements air, water and land which constitute harmony of nature for proper and balance living of all organisms, it was fortunate enough that such hospitable and balance environment was the destiny of our predecessors. But it is contrary to living of the present environment. With the ra...

Ð Promoting sustainable development requires evaluating the technical and policy options that will facilitate the adoption and use of energy ecient and less polluting cooking stoves and practices. The transition from traditional to modern fuels and devices has been explained by the ``energy ladder'' model that suggests that with increasing a‚uence, a progression is expected from traditional bi...

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: This study aims to assess the effects of intervention strategies that reduce exposure to household air pollution from burning solid fuels on episodes of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) in children under the age of 15 years.

the aim of this study was identification of fungi in indoor and outdoor of asthmatic patients´ home environment. opened plates (containing of malt extract agar media) were used for isolation of fungi in the air of indoor (n=360) and outdoor (n=180) of 90 asthmatic patients̉ home living in the city of sari at the level of breathing height. plates were incubated in room temperature for 7-14 days. ...