TY - JOUR
T1 - Solid fuel use for cooking and its health effects on the elderly in rural China
AU - Liu, Jin
AU - Hou, Bingdong
AU - Ma, Xiao Wei
AU - Liao, Hua
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - China
KW - Elderly
KW - Health risks
KW - Household solid fuel
KW - Indoor air pollution
KW - Rural
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85034624421&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11356-017-0720-9
DO - 10.1007/s11356-017-0720-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 29164467
AN - SCOPUS:85034624421
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 25
SP - 3669
EP - 3680
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
IS - 4
ER -
