TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Household Air Pollution in Low- and Middle-income Countries A1 - Fandiño-Del-Rio, Magdalena A1 - Koehler, Kirsten A1 - Fedak, Kristen A1 - Peel, Jennifer A1 - Checkley, William A2 - Boulton, Matthew L. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. PY - 2022 T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e AB - Household air pollution (HAP) is generated in resource-limited settings where people continue to depend on solid fuels including wood, dung, agricultural crop waste, and coal or kerosene, for their basic energy needs such as cooking and heating. The use of solid fuels results in inefficient combustion, which produce high levels of harmful air pollutants like particulate matter (PM), carbon monoxide (CO), and nitrogen oxides; carcinogenic organic compounds such as benzene, formaldehyde, and 1,3-butadiene; carcinogenic cyclic chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); and, respiratory irritants such as phenols, cresols, acrolein, and acetaldehyde. Moreover, PM in HAP smoke contains compounds adsorbed to its surface including endotoxin, metals, and microbial components thought to play an important role in PM toxicity.1–3 Thus, HAP is a complex mixture that varies widely in its characteristics. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182673318 ER -