ICMR Center for Advanced Research on Environmental Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Glob Health Action. 2011;4. doi: 10.3402/gha.v4i0.5638. Epub 2011 Oct 4.
Environmental and occupational risk factors contribute to nearly 40% of the national burden of disease in India, with air pollution in the indoor and outdoor environment ranking amongst leading risk factors. It is now recognized that the health burden from air pollution exposures that primarily occur in the rural indoors, from pollutants released during the incomplete combustion of solid fuels in households, may rival or even exceed the burden attributable to urban outdoor exposures. Few environmental epidemiological efforts have been devoted to this setting, however. We provide an overview of important available information on exposures and health effects related to household solid fuel use in India, with a view to inform health research priorities for household air pollution and facilitate being able to address air pollution within an integrated rural-urban framework in the future.
环境和职业风险因素导致印度近 40%的疾病负担，室内外空气污染是主要的风险因素之一。现在人们已经认识到，主要发生在农村室内的空气污染暴露以及家庭中固体燃料不完全燃烧释放的污染物造成的健康负担，可能与城市户外暴露造成的负担相当，甚至更大。然而，针对这种情况，很少有环境流行病学方面的努力。本文概述了印度与家庭使用固体燃料有关的暴露和健康影响的重要信息，旨在为家庭空气污染健康研究重点提供信息，并为未来在城乡综合框架内解决空气污染问题提供便利。
