Open AccessDemonstrating bias and improved inference for stoves' health benefits
Author(s) -
Valerie Mueller,
Alexander Pfaff,
John Peabody,
Y. Liu,
Kirk R. Smith
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyr150
Subject(s) - stove , inference , environmental health , causal inference , medicine , public health , econometrics , computer science , artificial intelligence , geography , mathematics , nursing , archaeology
Many studies associate health risks with household air pollution from biomass fuels and stoves. Evaluations of stove improvements can suffer from bias because they rarely address health-relevant differences between the households who get improvements and those who do not.
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