The Conundrum of Cleaner Cookstove Interventions: Necessary but Insufficient?

Affiliations

¹ Kintampo Health Research Centre Ghana Health Service Kintampo, Ghana.
² Department of Environmental Health Sciences Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health New York, New York.
³ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, New York.

Editorial

Seyram Kaali et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021.

. 2021 Jun 1;203(11):1336-1338.

doi: 10.1164/rccm.202012-4353ED.

¹ Kintampo Health Research Centre Ghana Health Service Kintampo, Ghana.
² Department of Environmental Health Sciences Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health New York, New York.
³ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, New York.

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