SNV cookstoves | HAP & arthritis | Stove performance | LPG subsidies | HAP & stillbirths
Dan Campbell
Below are 1 and 2 sentence excerpts from the 7 latest posts to the WASHplus IAP Updates and links to the original source documents. http://blogs.washplus.org/iaqupdates
- From Theory to Practice of Change: Lessons from SNV’s Improved Cookstoves and Fuel Projects in Cambodia, Kenya, Nepal and Rwanda, 2015. Stockholm Environment Institute.
- Quantitative Guidance for Stove Usage and Performance to Achieve Health and Environmental Targets. Env Health Perspec, Aug 2015.
- Is air pollution a risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis?
- Smarter Subsidies for LPG: Working Paper, 2015.
- Air Pollution and Impact Analysis of a Pilot Stove Intervention: Report to the Ministry of Health and Inter-Ministerial Clean Stove Initiative of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 2015.
- Uncertainties in global aerosols and climate effects due to biofuel emissions
- Impact of exposure to cooking fuels on stillbirths, perinatal, very early and late neonatal mortality – a multicenter prospective cohort study in rural communities in India, Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia and Guatemala
From Theory to Practice of Change: Lessons from SNV’s Improved Cookstoves and Fuel Projects
in Cambodia, Kenya, Nepal and Rwanda, 2015. Stockholm Environment Institute.
Authors: Oliver Johnson, Hannah Wanjiru, et al.
This report compares the approach to cookstoves of SNV, the Netherlands Development Organisation, with evidence from the sector about how interventions can lead to market transformation.
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Quantitative Guidance for Stove Usage and Performance to Achieve Health and Environmental Targets. Env Health Perspec, Aug 2015.
Authors: Michael A. Johnson and Ranyee A. Chiang
Conclusions: Moderate health gains may be achieved with various performance–usage scenarios. The greatest benefits are estimated to be achieved by near-complete displacement of traditional stoves with clean technologies,
emphasizing the need to shift in the long term to near exclusive use of clean fuels and stoves. The performance–usage scenarios are also provided as a tool to guide technology selection and prioritize behavior change opportunities to maximize impact.
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Is air pollution a risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis? Journal of Inflammation, 2015, 12:48.
Authors: Mickael Essouma and Jean Jacques N. Noubiap
Corresponding author: Mickael Essouma ess...@rocketmail.com; esso...@gmail.com
All these considerations highlight the necessity to extend high quality epidemiological researches investigating different sources of atmospheric pollution across populations and particularly in low-and-middle countries,
in order to further explore the biological plausibility of air pollution’s effect in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. This should be attempted to better inform policies aiming to reduce the burden of rheumatoid arthritis.
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Smarter Subsidies for LPG: Working Paper, 2015.
Authors: Alok Tripathi, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas; Ambuj D. Sagar, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; Kirk R. Smith, University of California Berkeley
What would the LPG subsidy in the nation look like once such a “smart subsidy” program was in place for a few years? The answer in detail would have to consider changes in income, population, household size, urbanization, oil price, and status of alternative fuels including electrification and piped natural gas, among other factors.
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Air Pollution and Impact Analysis of a Pilot Stove Intervention: Report to the Ministry of Health and Inter-Ministerial Clean Stove Initiative of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 2015.
Authors: Hill LD, Pillarisetti A, Delapena S, Garland C, Jagoe K, Koetting P, Pelletreau A, Boatman MR, Pennise D, Smith KR.
This study evaluated the usage, air pollution, and fuel-use performance of an introduced advanced biomass stove (African Clean Energy (ACE)-1) based on measurements in 72 households in three villages of the Xonboury District of Savannakhet Province in early 2015. This amounted to 23 percent of all the households in these villages.
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Uncertainties in global aerosols and climate effects due to biofuel emissions.Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 8577–8596, 2015.
J. K. Kodros, C. E. Scott, et al. Correspondence to: J. K. Kodros (jko...@atmos.colostate.edu)
To better understand the climate impact of particle emissions from biofuel combustion, we recommend field/laboratory measurements to narrow constraints on (1) emissions mass, (2) emission size distribution, (3) mixing state, and (4) ratio of black carbon to organic aerosol.
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Impact of exposure to cooking fuels on stillbirths, perinatal, very early and late neonatal mortality – a multicenter prospective cohort study in rural communities in India, Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia and Guatemala. Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology, 2015, 1:18.
Authors: Archana B. Patel, Sreelatha Meleth, et al.
Corresponding author: Archana B Patel: dr_a...@yahoo.com
Conclusions: Perinatal mortality was associated with exposure to HAP from week 20 of pregnancy through at least day 2 of life. Since pregnancy losses before labor and delivery are difficult to track, the effect of
exposure to polluting fuels on global perinatal mortality may have previously been underestimated.