Kirk R Smith

Datos Biográficos

ID3704797
NOMBREKirk R Smith
NOMBRESKirk R
APELLIDOSmith
FIRMASMITH K R
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0002-0439-1120
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS40
TOTAL DE CITAS28
TOTAL COMO AUTOR40
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1982
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
ÍNDICE H3

  • Biomass Smoke Exposure and Atopy among Young Children in the Western Highlands of Guatemala

    Open AccessWenxin Lu, Laura A Wang et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Women and children in rural regions of low-income countries are exposed to high levels of household air pollution (HAP) as they traditionally tend to household chores such as cooking with biomass fuels. Early life exposure to air pollution is associated with aeroallergen sensitization and developing allergic diseases at older ages. This prospective cohort study assigned HAP-reducing chimney stoves to 557 households in rural Guatemala at different…

  • Developing Visual Messages to Support Liquefied Petroleum Gas Use in Intervention Homes in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (Hapin) Trial in Rural Guatemala

    Open AccessMayari Hengstermann, Anaité Díaz-Artiga et al.ARTICLEHealth Education & Behavior2021

    BACKGROUND: Household air pollution adversely affects human health and the environment, yet more than 40% of the world still depends on solid cooking fuels. The House Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) randomized controlled trial is assessing the health effects of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stove and 18-month supply of free fuel in 3,200 households in rural Guatemala, India, Peru, and Rwanda. AIMS: We conducted formative research in …

  • Increased air pollution exposure among the Chinese population during the national quarantine in 2020

    Open AccessHuizhong Shen, Guofeng Shen et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Referencias: 38

    The COVID-19 quarantine in China is thought to have reduced ambient air pollution. The overall exposure of the population also depends, however, on indoor air quality and human mobility and activities. Here, by integrating real-time mobility data and a questionnaire survey on time-activity patterns during the pandemic, we show that despite a decrease in ambient PM2.5 during the quarantine, the total population-weighted exposure to PM2.5 consideri…

  • Sanitation in Rural India

    Open AccessAnoop Jain, Lia C H Fernald et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    In 2017, the Joint Monitoring Programme estimated that 520 million people in India were defecating in the open every day. This is despite efforts made by the government, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and multilaterals to improve latrine coverage throughout India. We hypothesize that this might be because current interventions focus mostly on individual-level determinants, such as attitudes and beliefs, instead of considering all possible…

  • The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

    Open AccessPhilip J Landrigan, Richard Fuller et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

  • A Low-Cost Stove Use Monitor to Enable Conditional Cash Transfers

    Open AccessAjay Pillarisetti, Manpreet Gill et al.ARTICLEEcoHealth2018

  • Household air pollution, health, and climate change

    Open AccessJosé Goldemberg, Javier Martínez-Gómez et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Air pollution from the use of solid household fuels is now recognized to be a major health risk in developing countries. Accordingly, there has been some shift in development thinking and investment from previous efforts, which has focused only on improving the efficiency of household fuel use, to those that focus on reducing exposure to the air pollution that leads to health impact. Unfortunately, however, this is occurring just as the climate a…

  • Kerosene subsidies for household lighting in India

    Open AccessNicholas L Lam, Saroj Pachauri et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Kerosene subsidy reform is a key policy concern in India and other developing countries. As kerosene is widely used for lighting in India, any price change will likely have considerable public welfare impacts on the large fraction of the poor who do not have access to reliable electricity supply for lighting. In this study, we assess historic kerosene use for residential lighting across population groups separated by urban/rural, expenditure, and…

  • Changing Paradigms in Clean Cooking

    Open AccessKirk R SmithARTICLEEcoHealth2015

  • Applications of a joint CO 2 and CH 4 climate debt metric

    Open AccessManish A Desai, Jamesine V Rogers et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2015Referencias: 5

  • Millions Dead

    Kirk R Smith, Nigel Bruce et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Public Health2014

    In the Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) done as part of the Global Burden of Disease project (GBD-2010), the global and regional burdens of household air pollution (HAP) due to the use of solid cookfuels, were estimated along with 60+ other risk factors. This article describes how the HAP CRA was framed; how global HAP exposures were modeled; how diseases were judged to have sufficient evidence for inclusion; and how meta-analyses and exposure-r…

  • An Integrated Risk Function for Estimating the Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Exposure

    Open AccessRichard T Burnett, C Arden Pope et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Health Perspectives2014

    Background: Estimating the burden of disease attributable to long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in ambient air requires knowledge of both the shape and magnitude of the relative risk (RR) function. However, adequate direct evidence to identify the shape of the mortality RR functions at the high ambient concentrations observed in many places in the world is lacking.Objective: We developed RR functions over the entire global expo…

  • Household Cooking with Solid Fuels Contributes to Ambient PM 2.5 Air Pollution and the Burden of Disease

    Open AccessZoë Chafe, Zoë A Chafe et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Health Perspectives2014

    BACKGROUND: Approximately 2.8 billion people cook with solid fuels. Research has focused on the health impacts of indoor exposure to fine particulate pollution. Here, for the 2010 Global Burden of Disease project (GBD 2010), we evaluated the impact of household cooking with solid fuels on regional population-weighted ambient PM2.5 (particulate matter ≤ 2.5 μm) pollution (APM2.5). OBJECTIVES: We estimated the proportion and concentrations of APM2.…

  • Ambient temperature during gestation and cold-related adult mortality in a Swedish cohort, 1915-2002

    Open AccessT A Bruckner, Gerard J Van Den Berg et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2014Citada por: 4Referencias: 36

  • Solid Fuel Use for Household Cooking

    Open AccessSophie Bonjour, Heather Adair‐Rohani et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Health Perspectives2013

    BACKGROUND: Exposure to household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels in simple stoves is a major health risk. Modeling reliable estimates of solid fuel use is needed for monitoring trends and informing policy. OBJECTIVES: In order to revise the disease burden attributed to household air pollution for the Global Burden of Disease 2010 project and for international reporting purposes, we estimated annual trends in the world population usin…

  • Improving stove evaluation using survey data

    Open AccessValerie Mueller, Alexander Pfaff et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2013

  • Kerosene

    Nicholas L Lam, Kirk R Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Toxicology and…2012

    Kerosene has been an important household fuel since the mid-19th century. In developed countries its use has greatly declined because of electrification. However, in developing countries, kerosene use for cooking and lighting remains widespread. This review focuses on household kerosene uses, mainly in developing countries, their associated emissions, and their hazards. Kerosene is often advocated as a cleaner alternative to solid fuels, biomass …

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010

    Open AccessStephen S Lim, Theo Vos et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2012

  • Biomass fuel and risk of tuberculosis

    P V M Lakshmi, Navkiran Kaur Virdi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2012Referencias: 12

    BACKGROUND: Although a known risk factor for several respiratory diseases, the relationship between cooking smoke and tuberculosis has not been conclusively established. Hence, a case-control study was conducted among adult women of Chandigarh Union Territory in India. METHODS: Physician-diagnosed cases of sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis (n=126) and age- and residence area-matched controls (n=252) were enrolled from clinics in urban, rural…

  • Effect of reduction in household air pollution on childhood pneumonia in Guatemala (Respire)

    Open AccessKirk R Smith, John P McCracken et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2011

  • Adoption and sustained use of improved cookstoves

    Open AccessIlse Ruiz-Mercado, Omar Masera et al.ARTICLEEnergy Policy2011

  • Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in rural women of Tamilnadu

    Open AccessPriscilla Johnson, Kalpana Balakrishnan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2011

    BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the 13th leading cause of burden of disease worldwide and is expected to become 5th by 2020. Biomass fuel combustion significantly contributes to COPD, although smoking is recognized as the most important risk factor. Rural women in developing countries bear the largest share of this burden resulting from chronic exposures to biomass fuel smoke. Although there is considerable strength of…

  • Climate change and population in the Muslim world

    Nadia Diamond-Smith, Nadia Diamond‐Smith et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2011

    Many regions of the globe especially vulnerable to climate change are home to the world’s largest Muslim populations. Projections of climatic risk and subsequent health consequences and mortality are exacerbated by growing populations. Close examination of both the current and future trends is essential for a better understanding of how severely climate change might affect such populations. While it is generally perceived that many Muslim countri…

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions

    Open AccessPaul Wilkinson, Kirk R Smith et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2009

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions

    Open AccessAnna Haines, Andy Haines et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2009