Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay

TL;DR: The high PM and CO concentrations reinforce the need for interventions that reduce HAP exposure in the aforementioned community and are useful for designing feasibility and/or pilot studies aimed at intervention efforts locally and nationally.

TL;DR: The study provides some of the first quantitative effects estimates for linking rural‐urban PM2.5 exposures and birthweight in India, adding important evidence for this association from high exposure settings in LMICs, that also experience dual health burdens from ambient and household air pollution.

TL;DR: This work provides an overview of important available information on exposures and health effects related to household solid fuel use in India, with a view to inform health research priorities for household air pollution and facilitate being able to address air pollution within an integrated rural–urban framework in the future.

TL;DR: Results indicate that achieving health relevant exposure reductions in solid–fuel using households will require integration of emissions reductions with ease of use and adoption at community scale, in cook-stove technologies.

TL;DR: Results from the present study did not support the widespread use of this type of stove in this population as a means to reliably provide health-relevant reductions in HAP exposures for pregnant women compared with open biomass cookstoves.