Solid fuel use is associated with anemia in children

Leon-Abarca, Juan Alonso; Accinelli Tanaka, Roberto Alfonso

dc.contributor.author	Accinelli Tanaka, Roberto Alfonso
dc.contributor.author	Leon-Abarca, Juan Alonso
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-25T16:03:20Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-25T16:03:20Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/4761
dc.description.abstract	Over 3 billion people use solid fuels as a means of energy and heating source, and ~ 50% of households burn them in inefficient, poorly ventilated stoves. In 2010, ~ 43% of the 640 million preschool children in 220 countries suffered from a certain degree of anemia, with iron deficiency as the main cause in developed countries whereas its causes remained multifactorial in the undeveloped group. In this study, we explore the relations of country-wide variables that might affect the people's health status (from socioeconomic status to more specific variables such as water access). We found independent relationship between solid fuel use and anemia in children under five years old (p < 0.0001), taking into account the prevalence of anemia in pregnant woman and the access to improved water sources. Countries in which the population uses solid fuel the most have over three times higher anemia rates in children than countries with the lowest prevalence of solid fuels use. There is still a complex relationship between solid fuels use and anemia, as reflected in its worldwide significance (p < 0.05) controlled for measles immunization, tobacco consumption, anemia in pregnant mothers, girl's primary education, life expectancy and improved water access but not (p > 0.05) when weighing for sanitation access or income per capita.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Environmental Research
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject	Cooking	en_US
dc.subject	Heating	en_US
dc.subject	Air Pollution, Indoor/adverse effects	en_US
dc.subject	Anemia/epidemiology/etiology	en_US
dc.subject	Child	en_US
dc.subject	Child, Preschool	en_US
dc.subject	Female	en_US
dc.subject	Humans	en_US
dc.subject	Infant	en_US
dc.subject	Infant, Newborn	en_US
dc.subject	Male	en_US
dc.subject	Prevalence	en_US
dc.subject	Risk Factors	en_US
dc.subject	Socioeconomic Factors	en_US
dc.subject	Wood/analysis	en_US
dc.title	Solid fuel use is associated with anemia in children	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2017.06.032
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.08
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.05
dc.relation.issn	1096-0953