• About the Study
• Publications
• Associated Studies
• Three Movies: Project Overview
• Radio Program Featuring CRECER Study
• Personnel
• About RESPIRE
• Intranet

Overview: RESPIRE (Randomized Exposure Study of Pollution Indoors and Respiratory Effects

The purpose of the Randomized Exposure Study of Pollution Indoors and Respiratory Effects (RESPIRE) - Guatemala was to better understand the relationship between acute respiratory infections in children and exposure to indoor air pollution. We worked in the community of San Lorenzo and installed an improved cookstove called a plancha in half of the participating households at the beginning of the study and the rest at the end of the 24 month surveillance period. We examined acute respiratory infections (ARI) in children >18 months of age over a 2 year period to see if there is a difference in the incidence of ARI in children who have the plancha compared to children who did not have the plancha. We measured levels of pollution in households that have the plancha and those without the plancha. ...more

NEWS

• Data collection wraps up in San Lorenzo
• "Reducing indoor air pollution with a randomised intervention design–A presentation of the Stove Intervention Study in the Guatemalan Highlands"
  Smith-Sivertsen, et al. Nor Epid 2004 read more »
• "New Stoves for Better Children's Health?" Environmental Health Perspectives, Dooley, (January 2003) read more »
• View a pamphlet on the Guatemala study.