Health impacts of a randomized biomass cookstove intervention in northern Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Household air pollution (HAP) from cooking with solid fuels has adverse health effects. REACCTING (Research on Emissions, Air quality, Climate, and Cooking Technologies in Northern Ghana) was a randomized cookstove intervention study that aimed to determine the effects of two types of "improved" biomass cookstoves on health using self-reported health symptoms and biomarkers of systemic inflammation from dried blood spots for female adult cooks and children, and anthropometric growth measures for children only.

Methods

Two hundred rural households were randomized into four different cookstove groups. Surveys and health measurements were conducted at four time points over a two-year period. Chi-square tests were conducted to determine differences in self-reported he

SUBMITTER: Abdo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8642932 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature