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IJE Advance Access originally published online on January 11, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(1):130-131; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl278
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Could biomass fuel smoke cause anaemia and stunting in early childhood?

Jonathan M Samet* and James Tielsch

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland USA.

* Corresponding author. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Rm. W6041, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. E-mail: jsamet@jhsph.edu

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Worldwide, traditional biomass fuels remain the principal source for cooking and heating of homes; these fuels account for about one-third of energy consumption in developing countries. Serious indoor air pollution as a result of burning biomass fuels with inadequate ventilation has been well documented. Several decades ago, Kirk Smith and colleagues demonstrated remarkably high levels of particles in homes in rural India where biomass fuels were being burned, reviewed in Smith (1987).1 Measured values of indicator pollutants in such environments, including particles and carbon monoxide, are typically many-fold greater than permitted under typical . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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