Women and children in the poorest regions in the world are victims of primitive stoves (European)
U.S. scientists said that the number of victims of air pollution across the primitive stoves used for cooking, than the number of malaria victims, estimated at about one million people a year, according to WHO data.
According to a study published Thursday in the journal "Science" American, women and children in the poorest regions in the world are more victims of smoke from these stoves, which leads to poisoning of the air.
The researchers recommended to provide about a hundred million households in developing countries clean cooking stoves and energy-saving in a period not to exceed 2020, a target set by the institution itself, "the International Union for the cooking stove clean" of the United Nations.
The researchers said that there have adopted for this purpose for decades, but with limited success, and offered in their latest solutions to address this problem.
Nearly half of the world's population out of poverty, which threatens their health due to air pollution around them, where the houses used in these countries, wood and coal for cooking and heating, which leads to full houses thick with smoke and blackening the walls and ceilings and the injury of the population of disease.
The study stated that women and children who deal with the more primitive stoves suffer the most from the consequences of exposure to heavy smoke, which are similar to symptoms experienced by smokers who started smoking many years ago.
The researchers said that the causes of death in "Children of stoves" under five years are the direct infection of the lungs and chronic diseases that infect the respiratory tract by the smoke of fireplaces.
And these primitive stoves that work with fire wood and coal harm the environment, according to the study, which requires lit to bring large quantities of wood, leading to test the surrounding forests of trees.
The fire of these stoves send large amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, while the energy-saving stoves consume less fuel and maintain the climate.
The researchers saw the need to sell new stoves to clean the primitive peoples of the regions rather than donated to them so that they have accepted, in addition to the involvement of consumers in the development of these stoves to suit the needs of the population and even better used.
Source: DBA