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Solid fuel use is associated with anemia in children

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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


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