WHO guidelines for indoor air quality : household fuel combustion.

Built on existing WHO indoor air quality guidelines for specific pollutants, these guidelines bring together the most recent evidence on fuel use, emission and exposure levels, health risks, intervention impacts and policy considerations, to provide practical recommendations to reduce this health bu...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: World Health Organization (Issuing body)
Language:English
Published: Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, [2014]
Subjects:
Indoor air pollution > Health aspects > Developing countries.
Indoor air quality.
Fuel.
Air Pollution, Indoor > prevention & control.
Cooking.
Developing Countries.
Fossil Fuels > adverse effects.
Heating.
Household Products > adverse effects.
Guideline.
Genre:
Guideline.
Physical Description:xvi, 160 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Household fuel combustion
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Guideline development process
  • Individuals and partners involved in the development of these guidelines
  • Recommendations
  • Implementation of the guidelines
  • Updating the guidelines
  • Annexes: 1. Steering, advisory and external review groups
  • 2. Summary of conflict of interest (COI) management
  • 3. Summary of evidence reviews
  • 4. Recommendation 1-emission rate targets: assessment of the quality of the evidence and strength of the recommendation
  • 5. Recommendation 2-policy during transition: assessment of the quality of the evidence and the strength of the recommendation
  • 6. Recommendation 3-household use of coal: assessment of the quality of the evidence and the strength of the recommendation
  • 7. Recommendation 4-hosuehold use of kerosene: assessment of the quality of the evidence and the strength of the recommendation
  • 8. Policy considerations for the best-practice recommendation on climate co-benefits
  • 9. International standards and testing facilities.