Department: Epi & Pop Health
Type: Clinical research
Description
Environmental – Woodsmoking stoves and lung cancer
“Burning wood to heat your home may cause short-term and long-term health effects. One rural community in Chile is currently improving the wood burning stoves in ~50,000 homes. This “natural experiment” is providing the opportunity to study the biological impacts, and diseases, associated with wood smoke exposure (i.e., lung cancer, COPD, low birth weight). Given the scale of this project, there are also opportunities to study additional health-related topics relevant to rural communities (i.e., cancer risk/screening, cardiovascular disease, access to care, mental health, women’s health, children’s health, etc).”
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