Lakshmi PVM, Virdi NK, Sharma A, Tripathy JP, Smith KR, Bates MN, Kumar R. Household air pollution and stillbirths in India: Analysis of the DLHS-II National Survey. Environmental Research 121 (2013) 17–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2012.12.004→ Download PDF.
Energy and Human Health
Smith KR, Frumkin H, Balakrishnan K, Butler CD, Chafe ZA, Fairlie I, Kinney P, Kjellstrom T, Mauzerall DL, McKone TE, McMichael AJ, Schneider M. Energy and Human Health. Annu. Rev. Public Health 2013. 34:25.1–25.30→ Download PDF.
Household fuels, low birth weight, and neonatal death in India: The separate impacts of biomass, kerosene, and coal
Epstein MB, Bates MN, Arora NK, Balakrishnan K, Jack DW, Smith KR. Household fuels, low birth weight, and neonatal death in India: The separateimpacts of biomass, kerosene, and coal International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health (2016) 523-532. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2012.12.006 → Download PDF.
Tackling the world’s forgotten killer
18 January, 2013 "About the worst thing you can do is stick burning stuff in your mouth. Every year, tobacco kills more than six million people, according to the World health Organization. Including secondhand tobacco smoke affecting non-smokers, it is the chief cause of ill-health (measured as lost years of healthy life) among men globally and for everyone in North America and Western Europe.
The terrible disease burden imposed by tobacco is recognized by most people, but the risk of another form of smoke is also highlighted in the new “Global Burden of Disease” report released last Month in The Lancet – smoke from cooking fires. About 40 percent of the world still cooks with solid fuels, like wood and coal, in simple stoves that release substantial amounts of the same kinds of hazardous chemicals found in tobacco smoke directly into the household environment. Indeed, a typical wood cookfire emits 400 cigarettes worth of smoke an hour."
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the GBD Study 2010
Lim S.S and many others (including KR Smith), 2012, A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, Lancet, 380: 2224-60.
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TURBOCOCINA Field Assessments in Schools: San Lorenzo Guatemala
Northcross AL, Smith KR, Hernandez MT. TURBOCOCINA Field Assessments in Schools: San Lorenzo Guatemala. Household Energy, Health, and Climate Change Research Group. UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Nov 2012.→ Download PDF.
Household Light Makes Global Heat: High Black Carbon Emissions From Kerosene Wick Lamps
Lam N, Chen Y, Weyant C, Venkataraman C, Sadavarte P, Johnson M, Smith KR, Brem B, Arineitwe J, Ellis J, Bond T. Household Light Makes Global Heat: High BlackCarbon Emissions From Kerosene Wick Lamps. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2012, 46, 13531−13538. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es302697h → Download PDF. → Download Supplemental Material (PDF).
Pollutant Emissions and Energy Efficiency under Controlled Conditions for Household Biomass Cookstoves and Implications for Metrics Useful in Setting International Test Standards
Jetter J, Zhao Y, Smith KR, Khan B, Yelverton T, Decarlo P, Hays MD. Pollutant Emissions and Energy Efficiency under Controlled Conditions for Household Biomass Cookstoves and Implications for Metrics Useful in Setting International Test Standards. Environ Sci Technol. 2012 Oct 2;46(19):10827-34. doi: 10.1021/es301693f. Epub 2012 Sep 17.→ Download PDF → Download Supplement PDF
2012 Global Energy Assessment
The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) involves specialists from a range of scientific and engineering disciplines, industry groups, and policy areas in defining a new global energy policy agenda, that transforms the way society thinks about, uses and delivers energy and to facilitate equitable and sustainable energy services for all, in particular the two billion people who currently lack access to clean, modern energy. GEA is the first ever fully integrated energy assessment that analyzes energy challenges, opportunities and strategies, for developing, industrialized and emerging economies. It is supported by government and non-governmental organizations, the United Nations Systems, and the private sector and was subject to rigorous and independent analysis and review. Click here to see the full table of contents. All 25 chapters can be downloaded from IIASA. Attached here are two sections:
Key Findings, Technical Summary, and Summary for Policy Makers
Chapter 4: Energy and Health, Smith KR, Balakrishnan K, Butler C, Chafe Z, Fairlie I, Kinney P, Kjellstrom T, Mauzerall DL, McKone T, McMichael A, Schneider M, Wilkinson P, 2012. In Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future, ed. GEA Team. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Temperature dataloggers as stove use monitors (SUMs): Field methods and signal analysis
Ruiz-Mercado I, Canuz E, Smith KR. (2012). Temperature dataloggers as stove use monitors (SUMs): Field methods and signal analysis. Biomass and Bioenergy 47 (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.09.003→ Download PDF
Exposure Science in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy
Committee on Human and Environmental Exposure Science in the 21st Century (KR Smith, Chair), Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, and National Research Council. Exposure Science in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy. The National Academies Press; 2012. Download PDF | View on National Academies Press website
Global Heart: Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution, and Cardiovascular Health
The most recent issue of Global Heart, the Official Journal of the World Heart Foundation, is dedicated to Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Health (click here to see the Table of Contents ). Attached here are two of the articles related to Household Air Pollution.
1. Baumgartner J, Smith KR, Chockalingam A. Reducing CVD Through Improvements in Household Energy Implications for Policy-Relevant Research. (2012) Global Heart 7:3. 243-247. Download PDF.
2. Pandey MR. Household Smoke Pollution and Chronic Cor Pulmonale. (2012) Global Heart 7:3. 261-263.Download PDF.
Cooking practices, air quality, and the acceptability of advanced cookstoves in Haryana, India: an exploratory study to inform large-scale interventions
Mukhopadhyay R, Sambandam S, Pillarisetti A, Jack D, Mukhopadhyay K, Balakrishnan K, Vaswani M, Bates MN, Kinney PL, Arora N, & Smith, KR. (2012). Cooking practices, air quality, and the acceptability of advanced cookstoves in Haryana, India: an exploratory study to inform large-scale interventions. Global Health Action, 5. doi:10.3402/gha.v5i0.19016→ Download PDF
Kerosene: A Review of Household Uses and their Hazards in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Lam NL, Smith KR, Gauthier A, Bates MN. Kerosene: A Review of Household Uses and their Hazards in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B: Critical Reviews, 15:6, 396-432 (2012).→ Download PDF
Demographic change and carbon dioxide emissions
O'Neill BC, Liddle B, Jiang L, Smith KR, Pachauri S, Dalton M, Fuchs R. Demographic change and carbon dioxide emissions. The Lancet, Available online 9 July 2012, ISSN 0140-6736, 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60958-1.→ Download (PDF)
A Short History of Woodsmoke and Implications for Chile
Smith KR, Pillarisetti A. A Short History of Woodsmoke and Implications for Chile. Estudios Públicos, 126 (otoño 2012): 163-179.→ Download (Spanish) → Download (English)
Personal PM2.5 and indoor CO in nomadic tents using open and chimney biomass stoves on the Tibetan Plateau
Li C, Kang S, Chen P, Zhang Q, Guo J, Mi J, Basang P, Luosang Q, Smith KR, Personal PM2.5 and indoor CO in nomadic tents using open and chimney biomass stoves on the Tibetan Plateau, Atmos Environ. 59: 207-213.→ Download PDF
Biomass fuel and risk of tuberculosis: a case control study from Northern India
P V M Lakshmi, Navkiran Kaur Virdi, J S Thakur, Kirk R Smith, Michael N Bates, Rajesh Kumar. Biomass fuel and risk of tuberculosis: a case–control study from Northern India. J Epidemiol Community Health 2012;66:5 457-461 Published Online First: 30 November 2010 doi:10.1136/jech.2010.115840→ View PDF
Combustion Efficiency and Particle Size: Exposing the large gap in small-particle measurement during improved stove testing
Hill LD. Combustion Efficiency and Particle Size: Exposing the large gap in small-particle measurement during improved stove testing, 2012, Masters Thesis, Yale School of Public Health.→ Download PDF.
An energy vision: the transformation towards sustainability — interconnected challenges and solutions
van Vuuren, D., Nakicenovic, N., Riahi, K., Brew-Hammond, A., Kammen, D., Modi, V., Nilsson, M., Smith, K., 2012. An energy vision: the transformation towards sustainability—interconnected challenges and solutions. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 4, 18–34.→ Download PDF