Arava Y Kallai, Avishai Henik
Absolute or relative size: What do we perceive when we look at a glass that is half full?
Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
environmental exposures ambient air pollution household fuel use affect health under5 mortality u5m paucity data global south study examined earlylife exposure ambient particulate matter diameter 25 less pm25 alongside household characteristics including selfreported household fuel use relationship u5m navrongo health demographic surveillance site hdss northern ghana employed satellitebased spatiotemporal models estimate annual average pm25 concentrations navrongo hdss area 1998 2016 earlylife exposure levels determined pollution estimates birth year sociodemographic household data including cooking fuel gathered routine surveillance cox proportional hazards models applied assess link earlylife pm25 exposure u5m accounting child maternal household factors retrospectively studied 48352 children born 2007 2017 1872 recorded deaths primarily due malaria sepsis acute respiratory infection mean earlylife pm25 393 gm3 significant association u5m observed however children households using unclean cooking fuels wood charcoal dung agricultural waste faced 73 higher risk death compared using clean fuels adjusted hr 173 95 ci 129 233 born female mothers aged 2034 years linked increased survival probabilities use unclean cooking fuel navrongo hdss associated under5 mortality highlighting need improve indoor air quality introducing cleaner fuels