Testing the effectiveness of two improved cookstove interventions in the Santiago de Chuco Province of Peru, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 420, 15 March 2012, Pages 54-64.
Christopher Fitzgerald, Manuel Aguilar-Villalobos, Adam R. Eppler, Stephen C. Dorner, Steven L. Rathbun, Luke P. Naeher
90% of people residing in rural areas of less-developed countries rely on coal and biomass fuels for heating and cooking, leading to high exposures to the products of incomplete combustion. Three Andean communities within the Santiago de Chuco province of Peru received two different models of improved cookstoves. The impact of these stoves in reducing personal exposures and kitchen concentrations of fine particulate matter and carbon monoxide (CO) was evaluated separately in 64 homes (32 with each stove model) using air monitoring equipment.
