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The Health Impact of Household Cooking Fuel Choice on Women: Evidence from China
- Source :
- Sustainability, Volume 13, Issue 21, Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 12080, p 12080 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021.
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Abstract
- In order to achieve sustainable development, the world is experiencing a profound energy transition from traditional biomass through fossil fuel to clean and renewable energy. As women are the primary undertakers of cooking in developing countries, they are more vulnerable to household air pollution caused by solid fuel combustion. Although women can benefit from clean fuel switching for household cooking, its influence on women’s health is still not well understood. Using the longitudinal data from China Family Panel Studies in 2014 and 2018, this study adopts panel data models to investigate the impact of household cooking fuel choice on women’s health from multiple dimensions in China, including self-rated health, others-rated health, and instrumental activities of daily living, aiming at shedding light on energy transition and health improvement for developing countries. It is found that household cooking fuel switching from solid fuel to clean fuel improves women’s self-rated and others-rated health but has no significant impact on women’s abilities of independence in daily activities. Specifically, each level of household cooking fuel increases respondents’ self-rated and others-rated health by 0.009 and 0.043, respectively. Moreover, further investigation of the impact of household cooking fuel switching on the health status of women from different groups found: (1) the health effect of clean cooking fuel switching on women aged 46 and above is more significant than that on women aged 45 and below, (2) there are significant differences between urban and rural areas in the impact of household cooking fuel switching on women’s health, and (3) uneducated women benefit more than educated women from clean cooking fuel switching. Finally, this study provides some policy implications to promote the energy transition and improve women’s health in China and other developing countries.
- Subjects :
- Sustainable development
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Geography, Planning and Development
Developing country
TJ807-830
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Energy transition
fuel choice
Solid fuel
TD194-195
Renewable energy sources
household cooking
Renewable energy
Environmental sciences
instrumental activities of daily living
Health effect
women’s health
GE1-350
health impact
Rural area
business
Socioeconomics
Panel data
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cea2ca7b515b3dc1b12030e24b68348a
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su132112080