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Do you know what kills 4 million people every year?

THE SILENT KILLER OF 4,000,000AYEAR: INDOOR AIR POLLUTION IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD ABOUT THREE BILLION PEOPLE REGULARLY USE OPEN FIRES AND LEAKY STOVES, BURNING BIOMASS FUELS = BIOMASS AND COAL COW DUNG WOOD CROP WASTE COAL This produces harmful smoke that deposits large quantities UP TO of health-damaging pollutants such as small soot particles 100 TIMES into their homes, and into THE ACCEPTABLE their lungs at a rate LEVEL. Globally, the impact of illnesses caused in part by these cooking and heating methods- mostly respiratory illnesses such as COPD, pneumonia, and lung cancer- kills nearly four million people per year, equal to one death every eight seconds.27 iiiii iiiiiiiiiiii i i iiiiiiiii. ONE DEATH EVERY EIGHT SECONDS MILLION PER YEAR Only alcohol use, tobacco smoking, low fruit intake, and high blood pressure killed more people on a global scale." Women and children are disproportionately affected, because women often cook using these methods indoors with their children nearby. CHINA, Some of the poorest populations in the world are also the most severely impacted, including INDIA, AND SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. WITH NEARLY 50% OF THE WORLD'S including 90% of rural households in POPULATION\ AFFECTED, developing countries, this is a global health concern,5 WHAT HEALTH PROBLEMS ARE CAUSED BY INDOOR AIR POLLUTION? HEALTH ISSUES IN CHILDREN, INCLUDE: STUNTED GROWTH ACUTE LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS (ALRI) PNEUMONIA AND BRONCHIOLITIS INCREASED INFANT MORTALITY ANEMIA NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT AND HEALTH ISSUES IN ADULTS, INCLUDE: STROKE CATARACTS NASOPHARYNGEAL AND LARYNGEAL CANCERS. CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) HUT LUNG DISEASE HEART ATTACK THE METHODS THAT PEOPLE ARE USING TO COOK THEIR FOOD AND HEAT THEIR HOMES IN AN EFFORT TO STAY ALIVE, ARE ACTUALLY KILLING THEM. THOSE AFFECTED BY INDOOR POLLUTION CAN IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS BY INSTALLING AND USING CLEAN COOK STOVES TO REDUCE THEIR EXPOSURE TO HARMFUL SMOKE.O THESE INCLUDE COOK STOVES THAT USE CHIMNEYS AND ARE FUELED BY LIQUID FUEL ETHANOL GAS SOLAR POWER OR ELECTRICITY. MULTIPLE FACTORS COULD SPEED UP THE ADOPTION OF CLEAN COOK STOVES, INCLUDING: and the rapidly rising cost of the current incendiary Elevating local new, local better awareness by regionally-sp financing, distribution, more effective ecific cook education stove models, fuelwood in affected areas. TO HELP REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF DEATHS RELATED TO POOR $150 $15 INDOOR AIR QUALITY, MORE CLEAN COOK STOVES ARE NEEDED. THE COST OF A SINGLE CLEAN COOK STOVE IS BETWEEN 15 TO 150 USD.12 HOW CAN YOU HELP SOLVE THE PROBLEM? Do your part by donating to a cause that aims to address the root of the problem: http://www.cleancookstoves.org/online-donation/ SOURCES: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets fs292 en/ http://www.cleancookstoves.org/our-work/ 3. 1. 2. http://www.cleancookstoves.org resources fact-sheets cookstoves-and-women-1.pdf http://www.slideshare.net/IHME gbd-2010-press-conference http://www.who.int/bulletin'archives/78 9 1078.pdf http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/visualizations gbd-2010-leading-causes-and-risks-region-heat-map http://www.eleancookstoves.org/resources fact-sheets/new-cookstoves-general-onepager-1.pdf http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith publications 02 smith_1.pdf 9. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. http://www.nebi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles PMC2568866/?report=printable http://www.cleancookstoves.org/our-work/the-solutions behavioral-structural.html 11. 10. http://www.nebi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles PMC3346782 http://www.cleancookstoves.org/our-work/transformation-strategies 12.

Do you know what kills 4 million people every year?

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Indoor air pollution from cookstoves impacts 42% of the world's population, and is responsible for 4% of the total worldwide disease burden. Indoor air pollution causes 4 million premature deaths ever...

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