Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Cooking Fuel Choice and Wellbeing: A Global Perspective. |
| Authors: |
Scott, Nigel1 (AUTHOR) nigel@gamos.org, Nsengiyaremye, Jerome2 (AUTHOR) j.nsengiyaremye@lboro.ac.uk, Todd, Jacob Fodio1 (AUTHOR) jacob@gamos.org, Leary, Jon1 (AUTHOR) jon@gamoseastafrica.org |
| Source: |
Energies (19961073). Sep2023, Vol. 16 Issue 18, p6739. 22p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*RENEWABLE energy transition (Government policy), *WELL-being, *INDEPENDENT variables, *DATABASES, *COOKING |
| Company/Entity: |
WORLD Health Organization |
| Abstract: |
This paper assesses the relationship between the proportion of the population with primary reliance on different types of fuels for cooking (national averages) and a number of key wellbeing indices. The study uses a data set created from a combination of the Gallup World Poll database and the World Health Organisation (WHO) Household Energy Database. The Gallup database comprises multinational survey data and contains wellbeing indices (Personal Health, Social Life, Civic Engagement, Life Evaluation, Negative Experience, etc.). The WHO database gives the proportion of a population with primary reliance on different types of cooking fuels. In order to understand the relative importance of the choice of cooking fuels in terms of wellbeing, regression modelling is used to control for the effects of demographic variables (income per capita, age, education level, employment, etc.), available in the Gallup database, on the wellbeing indices. The regression analysis results show that clean cooking fuels are strongly influential in health-related indices. By adding access to electricity as an additional predictor variable, the analysis highlights the potential for integrating eCooking into national electrification plans as part of sustainable energy transitions, given that health outcomes appear to be as closely linked to the choice of cooking fuels as to access to electricity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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