Humans around the world rely on a diversity of energy sources to provide heat for cooking and home comfort. Each of the energy sources utilized has a series of impacts on the environment and human health from extraction or harvest through combustion. At the household level, fuels that are considered to be clean, including gas, oil, and purchased electricity, yield lower levels of particulate em...

It has been proposed that the negative association between wives' earnings and their time in housework is due to greater outsourcing of household labor by households with high-earning wives, but this hypothesis has not been tested directly. In a sample of dual-earner married couples in the Consumption and Activities Mail Survey of the Health and Retirement Study (N = 796), use of market substit...

In Britain, during the 1880s and 1890s, there had been an increasing interest in the teaching of domestic subjects to girls (1). Initially, it was domestic economy—cooking, laundry work, and so on. Educators thought such mandatory instruction was important for two reasons: first, it was believed that the squalor and drunkenness that prevailed among the lower classes could be prevented by educat...

Employing total consumption as a household-level welfare indicator with which to measure poverty has often been criticised because it is felt that such an indicator does not account for differing access to, and cost of, publicly provided services. This paper discusses when and how adjustments can be made to expenditures derived from household surveys so as to reflect the consumption of basic se...

Achieving World Health Organization air quality targets and aspirational fuel savings targets through clean cooking solutions will require high usage rates of high-performing products and low usage rates of traditional stoves. Catalyzing this shift is challenging as fuel and stove use practices associated with new technologies generally differ from those used with traditional technologies. Acco...

In current study, the effects of Iranian rice cooking method (Kateh) on residue levels of 41 pesticides were investigated. The pesticides were selected according to Iranian National Standards Organization (INSO) regulations and covered 18 permitted and 23 banned pesticides belonging to different chemical classes such as organophosphate, triazole, and carbamate. A 250 g portion of rice sample wa...

Objective: To determine prevalence trends of using Wood as the Main Cooking Fuel (WMCF) in Mexico and household characteristics that predict its use. Materials and methods: Estimates were obtained from the 1990, 2000 and 2010 censuses and from a national survey performed in 2012 and 2013. Results: In 2012-2013, 9.5% of the 66 321 surveyed households and 10.9% of their 252 011 residents used...

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of reheating methods on the quality characteristics of precooked ground pork patties with various salt and phosphate levels. Cooking and reheating methods used were the electric grill cooking and microwave oven cooking. All treatments were composed by 80% pork ham and 20% pork fat. Salt and phosphate level about each treatment are as follo...

Cooking and home heating with coal and biomass fuels (wood, crop residues, animal dung, and charcoal) are ideal subjects for well intentioned epidemiology. Cooking and heating with such fuels generate large amounts of pollutants that can harm people’s health throughout the lifecourse, a risk that largely aff ects poor communities. In a simple world, epidemiology would investigate the hazardous ...

Household air pollution is a leading cause of disability-adjusted life years in Southeast Asia and the third leading cause of disability-adjusted life years globally. There are at least sixty sources of household air pollution, and these vary from country to country. Indoor tobacco smoking, construction material used in building houses, fuel used for cooking, heating and lighting, use of incens...