Assessing the association between household air pollution exposure and child heath in Mongolia: a birth-cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Children in Mongolia are exposed to harmful levels of household air pollution (HAP) due to a high reliance on coal for indoor cooking and heating. This study aims to assess the association between HAP and child health outcomes, in a birth cohort from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. A composite HAP measure was created using information on cooking and heating fuels and behaviours collected as part of a randomised control trial assessing the impact of swaddling on child health. Child health outcomes (Bayley Scales of Infant Development scores [BSID-II], pneumonia, height and weight) were collected at 7, 13, and 36 months. Linear and Cox proportional hazard model were used to assess the association between HAP and child health outcomes at each time point, adjusting for child, maternal and environmental

SUBMITTER: Dai Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11785753 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature