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Respiratory Illness And Household Air Pollution: Problem Identification And Intervention, Hannah Flournoy
Respiratory Illness And Household Air Pollution: Problem Identification And Intervention, Hannah Flournoy
The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing Undergraduate Honors Theses
This study is an expanded literature review that identifies the key concepts of Household Air Pollution (HAP) and the relationship it has with respiratory illness. This study identifies twenty research studies that inspect HAP and respiratory symptoms across a number of communities that utilize biomass fuel as their primary fuel source. It seeks to identify the problems that come with HAP, such as childhood respiratory infection, COPD, and other respiratory illnesses. This review seeks to identify if people in low to middle income countries, who utilize biomass fuel sources, see and improved respiratory outcome from using modern cookstoves and other …