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Ambient PM2.5 exposure and expected premature mortality to 2100 in India under climate change scenarios by Chowdhury, Sourangsu, Dey, Sagnik, Smith, Kirk R.

“…Premature mortality from current ambient fine particulate (PM 2.5 ) exposure in India is large, but the trend under climate change is unclear. Here we estimate…”
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Indian annual ambient air quality standard is achievable by completely mitigating emissions from household sources by Chowdhury, Sourangsu, Dey, Sagnik, Guttikunda, Sarath, Pillarisetti, Ajay, Smith, Kirk R., Di Girolamo, Larry

“…Exposures to ambient and household fine-particulate matter (PM2.5) together are among the largest single causes of premature mortality in India according to…”
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Making the clean available: Escaping India’s Chulha Trap by Smith, Kirk R., Sagar, Ambuj

“…Solid cookfuel pollution is the largest energy-related health risk globally and most important cause of ill-health for Indian women and girls. At 700 million…”
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Let the "A" in WASH Stand for Air: Integrating Research and Interventions to Improve Household Air Pollution (HAP) and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) in Low-Income Settings by Clasen, Thomas, Smith, Kirk R

“…Research often suffers from overspecialization, a practice nurtured in academia and reinforced by funders. Indeed, investigators in household air pollution…”
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Air pollutant emissions from Chinese households: A major and underappreciated ambient pollution source by Liu, Jun, Mauzerall, Denise L., Chen, Qi, Zhang, Qiang, Song, Yu, Peng, Wei, Klimont, Zbigniew, Qiu, Xinghua, Zhang, Shiqiu, Hu, Min, Lin, Weili, Smith, Kirk R., Zhu, Tong

“…As part of the 12th Five-Year Plan, the Chinese government has developed air pollution prevention and control plans for key regions with a focus on the power,…”
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Towards safe drinking water and clean cooking for all by Ray, Isha, Smith, Kirk R

“…The public health community has tried for decades to show, through evidence-based research, that safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and clean cooking…”
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Global impact of atmospheric arsenic on health risk: 2005 to 2015 by Zhang, Lei, Gao, Yang, Wu, Shiliang, Zhang, Shaoqing, Smith, Kirk R., Yao, Xiaohong, Gao, Huiwang

“…Arsenic is a toxic pollutant commonly found in the environment. Most of the previous studies on arsenic pollution have primarily focused on arsenic…”
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Change in household fuels dominates the decrease in PM2.5 exposure and premature mortality in China in 2005–2015 by Zhao, Bin, Zheng, Haotian, Wang, Shuxiao, Smith, Kirk R., Lu, Xi, Aunan, Kristin, Gu, Yu, Wang, Yuan, Ding, Dian, Xing, Jia, Fu, Xiao, Yang, Xudong, Liou, Kuo-Nan, Hao, Jiming

“…To tackle the severe fine particle (PM2.5) pollution in China, the government has implemented stringent control policies mainly on power plants, industry, and…”
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Pollutant Emissions and Energy Efficiency under Controlled Conditions for Household Biomass Cookstoves and Implications for Metrics Useful in Setting International Test Standards by Jetter, James, Zhao, Yongxin, Smith, Kirk R, Khan, Bernine, Yelverton, Tiffany, DeCarlo, Peter, Hays, Michael D

“…Realistic metrics and methods for testing household biomass cookstoves are required to develop standards needed by international policy makers, donors, and…”
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The quest for improved air quality may push China to continue its CO₂ reduction beyond the Paris Commitment by Xing, Jia, Lu, Xi, Wang, Shuxiao, Wang, Tong, Ding, Dian, Yu, Sha, Shindell, Drew, Ou, Yang, Morawska, Lidia, Li, Siwei, Ren, Lu, Zhang, Yuqiang, Loughlin, Dan, Zheng, Haotian, Zhao, Bin, Liu, Shuchang, Smith, Kirk R., Hao, Jiming

“…China is challenged with the simultaneous goals of improving air quality and mitigating climate change. The “Beautiful China” strategy, launched by the Chinese…”
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Household air pollution, health, and climate change: cleaning the air by Goldemberg, Jose, Martinez-Gomez, Javier, Sagar, Ambuj, Smith, Kirk R

“…Air pollution from the use of solid household fuels is now recognized to be a major health risk in developing countries. Accordingly, there has been some shift…”
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Solid fuel use for household cooking: country and regional estimates for 1980-2010 by Bonjour, Sophie, Adair-Rohani, Heather, Wolf, Jennyfer, Bruce, Nigel G, Mehta, Sumi, Prüss-Ustün, Annette, Lahiff, Maureen, Rehfuess, Eva A, Mishra, Vinod, Smith, Kirk R

“…Exposure to household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels in simple stoves is a major health risk. Modeling reliable estimates of solid fuel use is…”
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Household cooking with solid fuels contributes to ambient PM2.5 air pollution and the burden of disease by Chafe, Zoë A, Brauer, Michael, Klimont, Zbigniew, Van Dingenen, Rita, Mehta, Sumi, Rao, Shilpa, Riahi, Keywan, Dentener, Frank, Smith, Kirk R

“…Approximately 2.8 billion people cook with solid fuels. Research has focused on the health impacts of indoor exposure to fine particulate pollution. Here, for…”
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An integrated risk function for estimating the global burden of disease attributable to ambient fine particulate matter exposure by Burnett, Richard T, Pope, 3rd, C Arden, Ezzati, Majid, Olives, Casey, Lim, Stephen S, Mehta, Sumi, Shin, Hwashin H, Singh, Gitanjali, Hubbell, Bryan, Brauer, Michael, Anderson, H Ross, Smith, Kirk R, Balmes, John R, Bruce, Nigel G, Kan, Haidong, Laden, Francine, Prüss-Ustün, Annette, Turner, Michelle C, Gapstur, Susan M, Diver, W Ryan, Cohen, Aaron

“…Estimating the burden of disease attributable to long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in ambient air requires knowledge of both the shape and…”
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Estimating household air pollution exposures and health impacts from space heating in rural China by Chen, Yilin, Shen, Huizhong, Smith, Kirk R., Guan, Dabo, Chen, Yuanchen, Shen, Guofeng, Liu, Junfeng, Cheng, Hefa, Zeng, Eddy Y., Tao, Shu

“…Exposure to and the related burden of diseases caused by pollution from solid fuel cooking, known as household air pollution (HAP), has been incorporated in…”
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Temperature dataloggers as stove use monitors (SUMs): Field methods and signal analysis by Ruiz-Mercado, Ilse, Canuz, Eduardo, Smith, Kirk R.

“…We report the field methodology of a 32-month monitoring study with temperature dataloggers as Stove Use Monitors (SUMs) to quantify usage of biomass…”
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Adoption and sustained use of improved cookstoves by Ruiz-Mercado, Ilse, Masera, Omar, Zamora, Hilda, Smith, Kirk R.

“…The adoption and sustained use of improved cookstoves are critical performance parameters of the cooking system that must be monitored just like the rest of…”
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Effect of reduction in household air pollution on childhood pneumonia in Guatemala (RESPIRE): a randomised controlled trial by Smith, Kirk R, Prof, McCracken, John P, ScD, Weber, Martin W, DrMedHabil, Hubbard, Alan, PhD, Jenny, Alisa, MPH, Thompson, Lisa M, PhD, Balmes, John, Prof, Diaz, Anaité, MPH, Arana, Byron, PhD, Bruce, Nigel, PhD

“…Summary Background Pneumonia causes more child deaths than does any other disease. Observational studies have indicated that smoke from household solid fuel is…”
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Addressing the burden of disease attributable to air pollution in India: the need to integrate across household and ambient air pollution exposures by Balakrishnan, Kalpana, Cohen, Aaron, Smith, Kirk R

“…[...]the total attributable disease burden estimates for AAP and HAP in India are considerably higher than previous estimates (WHO 2004)…”
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Millions dead: how do we know and what does it mean? Methods used in the comparative risk assessment of household air pollution by Smith, Kirk R, Bruce, Nigel, Balakrishnan, Kalpana, Adair-Rohani, Heather, Balmes, John, Chafe, Zoë, Dherani, Mukesh, Hosgood, H Dean, Mehta, Sumi, Pope, Daniel, Rehfuess, Eva

“…In the Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) done as part of the Global Burden of Disease project (GBD-2010), the global and regional burdens of household air…”
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