A rural community intervention targeting biomass combustion sources: effects on air quality and reporting of children's respiratory outcomes.

Abstract

This wood stove intervention provided a unique opportunity to prospectively observe health benefits resulting from a targeted air pollution reduction strategy in a rural community.

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Subjects

• Adolescent
• Air Pollutants
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Cooking
• Environmental Monitoring
• Female
• Fires
• Heating
• Humans
• Male
• Montana
• Particulate Matter
• Prevalence
• Prospective Studies
• Respiration Disorders
• Rural Population
• Wood

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Authors

• Curtis W Noonan
• Tony J Ward
• William Navidi
• Lianne Sheppard

Publication date

2012-04-16

Journal

Journal topics

• Environmental Exposure
• Environmental Health
• Occupational Diseases
• Occupational Health

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Occupational and environmental medicine

Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812, USA. curtis.noonan [at] umontana.edu

Release reference

Occup Environ Med. 2012 May;69(5):354-60

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