Millions Dead: How Do We Know and What Does It Mean? Methods Used in the Comparative Risk Assessment of Household Air Pollution

Smith, Kirk R.; Bruce, Nigel; Balakrishnan, Kalpana; Adair-Rohani, Heather; Balmes, John; Chafe, Zoë; Dherani, Mukesh; Hosgood, H. Dean; Mehta, Sumi; Pope, Daniel; Rehfuess, Eva

doi:10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032013-182356

Millions Dead: How Do We Know and What Does It Mean? Methods Used in the Comparative Risk Assessment of Household Air Pollution

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 wa…