Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution & Women Health The Situation in Urban India
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...Finally, results from limited time-activity assessments in both rural and urban populations in India suggest that women spend a majority of time indoors with up to 10 h in the kitchen (Balakrishnan et al., 2004b; Behera and Balamugesh, 2005; Dutta and Banerjee, 2014; Jain et al., 2011)....
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...Dutta and Banerjee (2014) reported higher average exposure for women compared to men both in slum and non-slum locations in Kolkata, and the difference was found to be particularly relevant for people in the lower socioeconomic classes....
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...…are generally more vulnerable to health effects associated with air pollution, and have a disproportionately higher levels of exposure to HAP, particularly in developing countries (Parikh et al. 1999; Shimada and Matsuoka 2011; Buonanno et al. 2014; Dutta and Banerjee 2014; Gordon et al. 2014)....
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...…fuel sources including wood, coal, cow dung and kerosene (Balakrishnan et al., 2013a; Choi et al., 2014), and factors such as income, education, socio-economic status and age have been reported to influence fuel choice (Andresen et al., 2005; Duflo et al., 2008; Dutta and Banerjee, 2014)....
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...Being the main cook in the household, women spend a disproportionate amount of time in the kitchen which results in high overall exposure although they often have limited decision-making power in terms of choice of fuel (Duflo et al. 2008; Dutta and Banerjee 2014)....
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...This is an important observation since women bear a significant responsibility in terms of cooking in India, and often spend a significant amount of time in the kitchen, especially in poor households (Dutta and Banerjee, 2014)....
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...…of IAP include Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), lung cancer, asthma, etc. Literatures suggest that relative risk for COPD and lung cancer (from exposure to coal smoke) is a strong health outcome for women over 30 years of age (Smith et al., 2004)....
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...Environment and Urbanization ASiA, 5, 1 (2014): 131–145 We need two sets of weights to construct EXI, the vulnerability weight wi,(as), which has been derived from Kathuria and Khan (2007) and cij, which has been generated from the estimates extended by Saksena and Dayal (1997) and Ostro (1994)....
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...Incidence among women is greater not only due to higher exposure but also due to lower awareness (Pitt et al., 2006)....
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