Health

Emissions of dioxins and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls from domestic sources Final Report May 2006

Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases, 1st edition May 2003
Prepared by UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (UNEP) Chemicals Geneva, Switzerland

Dioxins and their effects on human health
World Health Organization, Fact sheet N°225 June 1999

Assessment of the health risk of dioxins: re-evaluation of the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI)

Asia Regional Cookstove Program Letter from the Secretariat May-June 2006 (pdf)

Feature:
WHO Inter-Regional Training Workshop on Indoor Air Pollution and Household Energy

Air Pollution and Respiratory Health among Honduran Women (2 MB pdf)poster
M.L. Clark,1 J.L. Peel,1 S. Conway,2 J.B. Burch,3 S.J. Reynolds 1 2006

1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; 2Trees Water & People, Fort Collins, CO; 3University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

SER IAP

ABSTRACT

Small Scale Biomass Systems, Renewable Energy: ER 120
Dan Kammen, Renewable Apprpriate Energy Laboratory, US Berekely, January 2002

National burden of disease in India from indoor air pollution
Kirk Smith, 2000
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360; and East-West Center, Honolulu, HI 96848

Smoke's increasing cloud across the globe
Practical Action June 16, 2006

Introduction:

It is in the world’s poorest regions that smoke is a major threat, including China, India and sub-Saharan Africa. On current trends, 200 million more people will rely on these polluting fuels by 2030. Women and children are exposed for up to seven hours a day to pollution concentrations 100 times and more above accepted safety levels. There is ample medical evidence that smoke from burning biomass fuels leads to killer diseases, such as penumonia, chronic bronchitis and lung cancer.