Padmavathi Ramaswamy

Biographic Data

ID8999907
NAMEPadmavathi Ramaswamy
GIVEN NAMESPadmavathi
FAMILY NAMERamaswamy
SIGNATURERAMASWAMY P
AFFILIATIONSSri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX0

  • 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…

  • Air pollution from household solid fuel combustion in India

    Open AccessKalpana Balakrishnan, Padmavathi Ramaswamy et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2011

    Environmental and occupational risk factors contribute to nearly 40% of the national burden of disease in India, with air pollution in the indoor and outdoor environment ranking amongst leading risk factors. It is now recognized that the health burden from air pollution exposures that primarily occur in the rural indoors, from pollutants released during the incomplete combustion of solid fuels in households, may rival or even exceed the burden at…