Call for Papers : Volume 15, Issue 03, March 2024, Open Access; Impact Factor; Peer Reviewed Journal; Fast Publication

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Study of traditional chulha, smoke exposure and effect on health in belvai village (banda district) - A case study

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Exposure to household wood smoke for longer duration and using traditional cook stoves and fuels is a risk factor for chronic lung diseases among women and young children in the kitchen premises with their mother’s in developing countries. Now the social scientists have recently begun to pay closer attention to this issue and to test strategies for reducing indoor air pollution. In this paper the results of the survey of types of traditional cook stoves and fuel consumption effecting the people’s health have been given. Also how long or how many hours the person responsible for cooking is exposed to the indoor air pollution / smoke produced by the biomass fuel. After the survey of 150 families in Belvai results clearly show the maximum number of families i.e. 80.66% families use traditional chulha’s / cook stoves and LPG is used only by 3.33% families which is a clean and safe method of cooking whereas 0.66% families use both the methods of cooking. Dungcake, Wood, Coal, Kerosene, Agricultural waste were identified as types of fuel consumed. Maximum exposure duration is of 1 to 2 hours per day i.e. 52.66% families are exposed for 1 to 2 hours in front of the cook stoves while families who spend longer duration i.e. 3-4 hours are only 10% . Among the total diseased population of 150 families 62.74% were suffering from diseases like cold, headache, vomiting, viral etc and the percentage of people having lung and eye infection were 5.88% and 31.37% respectively. This paper will also reveal all the variables directly or indirectly related to the health effects of the fuel consumed by the villagers.

Author: 
Ravindra Singh and Ranjeeta Simon
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