Apr 20 2012
In this post in the Center for Global Development's "Views from the Center" blog, Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center, responds to an article published in the Washington Post on Monday, which highlighted the results of a recent MIT/Harvard study on the public health benefits of clean cookstoves. He writes that "the results of the MIT study will come as a disappointment to the clean cookstove movement," but "they shouldn't come as a surprise." He highlights several previous studies on the issue and writes, "[T]he record of limited impact does suggest that we've got a long road ahead before we figure out what works and where when it comes to reducing indoor air pollution" (4/18).
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. |