FUEL COMBUSTION, AIR-POLLUTION EXPOSURE, AND HEALTH - THE SITUATION IN DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES

This review examines developing-country air pollution from the standpoint of a useful analysis technique that has been under development in recent years: "total exposure assessment'. The review is composed of four parts: a brief description of the historical and current relationship between energy use and air pollution; an explanation of the idea of exposure assessment and the power that it can bring to analyses of the health impacts of air pollution; focusing on developing countries, a global exposure assessment; and a review of the health effects literature relevant to the micro-environments found to harbor the largest human exposures. -from Author