School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China.
Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), 5 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081, China.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2018 Feb;25(4):3669-3680. doi: 10.1007/s11356-017-0720-9. Epub 2017 Nov 21.
Indoor air pollution is mainly caused by solid fuel use for cooking in developing countries. Many previous studies focused on its health risks on the children and in specific local area. This paper investigates household energy usage and transition for cooking in rural China and the health effects on the elderly. A national large-scale dataset CHARLS (China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study) covering 450 villages and communities is employed. Logit regressions were used to quantitatively estimate the effects, after controlling for some factors such as income, demographic, and geographical variables. The results robustly show that compared to non-solid fuels, solid fuel use significantly increases the possibility of chronic lung diseases (30%), exacerbation of chronic lung diseases (95%), seizure of heart disease (1.80 times), and decreases self-evaluated health status of the elderly (1.38 times). Thus, it is urgent to improve clean energy access for cooking in rural China.
室内空气污染主要是由于发展中国家烹饪用固体燃料引起的。许多先前的研究都集中在其对儿童和特定地区的健康风险上。本文调查了中国农村家庭能源使用和烹饪转型，以及对老年人的健康影响。本研究使用了一个覆盖 450 个村庄和社区的全国性大型数据集 CHARLS（中国健康与养老追踪调查）。在控制收入、人口统计学和地理变量等因素后，使用 Logit 回归定量估计了这些影响。结果稳健地表明，与非固体燃料相比，固体燃料的使用显著增加了患慢性肺病的可能性（30%）、慢性肺病恶化的可能性（95%）、心脏病发作的可能性（1.80 倍），以及降低了老年人自评健康状况的可能性（1.38 倍）。因此，迫切需要改善中国农村地区烹饪用清洁能源的获取。
