Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution from Househld Energy Use Rural China : The Interactions of Technology, Behaviour, and Knowledge in Health Risk Management  

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Yinlong, Jin ; Xiao, Ma ; Xining, Chen ; Yibin, Cheng ; Baris, Enis ; Ezzati, Majid

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 12 (Jun. 2006), page 3161-3176.
Topik: household; household energy; indoor air pollution; global health; sustainable development; health behavior; risk; technology diffusion; environment and development; china

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Indoor air pollution (IAP) from household use of biomass and coal is a leading environmental health risk in many developing nations. Much of the initial research on househpld energy technology overlooked the complex interactions of technological, behavioral, economic and infrastructural factors that determine the success of environmental health interventions. Consequently, despite enormous interest in reducing the large and inequitable risks associated with household energy use in international development and global health, there is limited empirical research to form the basis for design and delivery of effective interventions. We used data from four poor provinces in china (gansu,guizhou, inner mongolia and shaanxi) to examine the linkages among technology, user knowledge and behavior and access and infrastructure in exposure to IAP from household energy use. We conclude that broad health risk education is insufficient for successful risk mitigation when exposure behaviors are closely linked to day to day activities of households such as cooking and heating, or have other welfare implications, and hence cannot be simply stopped. Rather there should be emphasis on the economic and infrastructure determinants of access to technology, as well as the details of behaviors that affect exposure. Better understanding of technology behaviour interface would also allow designing technological interventions that account for and are robust to, behavioral factors or to provide individuals and households with alternative behaviors. Based on the analysis, we present technological and behavioural interventions for these four chinese provinces.

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