Assessing household solid fuel use: multiple implications for the Millennium Development Goals.

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Published in Environ Health Perspect on March 01, 2006

Authors

Eva Rehfuess1, Sumi Mehta, Annette Prüss-Ustün

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Protection of the Human Environment, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. rehfuesse@who.int

Associated clinical trials:

Encouraging LPG Adoption in Ghana: A Factorial Randomized Clinical Trial to Enhance LPG Adoption & Sustained Use (ELAG) | NCT03352830

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