Facilitators and barriers to improved cookstove adoption: a community-based cross-sectional study in Northwest Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Among the environmental risk factors, household air pollution exposure from traditional cooking practices is one of the biggest killers globally, which mainly impacts developing countries where many families rely on traditional cooking practices. Although improved cookstove adoption is central to tackle this public health issue, the efforts to disseminate cookstove technologies have faced challenges, and the adoption rates are reported to be very low in many developing countries including Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the magnitude and identify potential factors that may act as facilitators or barriers to adoption from users' point of view. METHODS:As part of the wider stove trial project, a cross-sectional study was conducted among a total of 5830 household

SUBMITTER: Adane MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7229589 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature