Browsing East-West Center by Subject "Biomass energy - India"

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Cooking with biomass fuels increases the risk of blindness

Mishra, Vinod K.; Retherford, Robert D.; Smith, Kirk R. (Mumbai, India: International Institute for Population Sciences and Honolulu: East-West Center, 1999)

Women living in households that use biomass cooking fuels, defined in the NFHS as wood and dung, have a much higher prevalence of both partial and complete blindness than women living in households that use cleaner fuels. ...
Cooking with biomass fuels increases the risk of tuberculosis

Mishra, Vinod K.; Retherford, Robert D.; Smith, Kirk R. (Mumbai, India: International Institute for Population Sciences and Honolulu: East-West Center, 1999)

Adults in households that cook with biomass fuels, defined in the NFHS as wood and dung, suffer a significantly higher risk of tuberculosis than adults in households that cook with cleaner fuels. An estimated 51% of the ...