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Cooking Fuel Choice and Well-Being: A Global Perspective
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: Received: 26 July 2023 / Approved: 26 July 2023 / Online: 28 July 2023 (10:15:16 CEST)
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Scott, N.; Nsengiyaremye, J.; Todd, J.F.; Leary, J. Cooking Fuel Choice and Wellbeing: A Global Perspective. Energies 2023, 16, 6739. Scott, N.; Nsengiyaremye, J.; Todd, J.F.; Leary, J. Cooking Fuel Choice and Wellbeing: A Global Perspective. Energies 2023, 16, 6739.
Abstract
This paper examines the importance of choice of cooking fuels in wellbeing, analysing relationships between the proportion of population with primary reliance on different types of fuels for cooking (predictor variable), and key wellbeing indices (outcome variables) - Personal Health, Social Life, Civic Engagement, Life Evaluation, Negative Experience. By combining two global datasets from Gallup and WHO, the study adds to current evidence by taking a global perspective. Controlling for demographic factors such as income per capita, age, education level, employment, etc., regression modelling of these relationships show that clean cooking fuels are influential in all of the key wellbeing indices with the exception of the Life Evaluation Index. Among the key wellbeing indices, Personal Health and Negative Experience Indices are the most strongly influenced by choice of clean cooking fuels. 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 (Personal health and Negative experience indices) appear to be as closely linked to choice of cooking fuels as to access to electricity.
Keywords
cooking fuel choice; clean cooking fuels; wellbeing index; access to electricity; health; demographic variables; regression analysis
Subject
Social Sciences, Geography, Planning and Development
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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