Upgrading to cleaner household stoves and reducing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among women in rural China — A cost-benefit analysis. Energy for Sustainable Development, 10 July 2013
Kristin Aunana, et al.
Highlights
• We measured current COPD prevalence and PM2.5 concentrations in rural Guizhou, China.
• Costs and health benefits of possible household stove interventions were estimated.
• Annual average PM2.5 exposure is reduced from 300–400 μg/m3 to 90–180 μg/m3.
• Annually 0.6–3.2 new cases of COPD among women are avoided per 1000 households.
• A probabilistic cost-benefit analysis shows large net benefits of interventions.
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This is an interesting project which is understood by few people, Energy poverty is general problem which cuts across the population because there is no one who can do minus energy being in lighting or cooking. If we can find a way to make majority of the people to adopt this behavior of using energy saving stoves we save the environment and income.