Professor
Kirk Smith's Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley, developed a simple, web-based tool (Household Air Pollution Intervention Tool 'HAPIT') to allow policy-makers, donors, non-governmental
organizations, project developers, and researchers to quickly compare
the impacts of various cooking technologies on human health at the
national level.
The tool facilitates easy-to-use impact comparisons by combining data
and calculations from several sources. Health impacts are estimated by
using recent findings from the 2010 Global Burden of Disease report
results, including the latest exposure-response
relationships caused by household air pollution for child pneumonia,
heart disease, and other diseases. The tool also derives simple
cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit estimates based on the World Health
Organization WHO-CHOICE methods.
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