<html><head></head><body lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#262626">Of DALYS and the Global Burden of Disease: impact (or not) of changing to 'improved stoves'. </font></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0149669.PDF">http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0149669.PDF</a><br></div>
<div id="_originalContent" style=""><br></div><div id="_originalContent" style="">Background The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) studies have transformed global understanding of health risks by producing comprehensive estimates of attributable disease burden, or the current disease that would be eliminated if a risk factor did not exist. Yet many have noted the greater policy significance of avoidable burden, or the future disease that could actually be eliminated if a risk factor were eliminated today. Avoidable risk may be considerably lower than attributable risk if baseline levels of exposure or disease are declining, or if a risk factor carries lagged effects on disease. As global efforts to deliver clean cookstoves accelerate, a temporal estimation of avoidable risk due to house hold air pollution (HAP) becomes increasingly important, particularly in light of the rapid uptake of modern stoves and ongoing epidemiologic transitions in regions like South and Southeast Asia. </div><div id="_originalContent" style=""><br></div><div id="_originalContent" style="">++++++++</div><div id="_originalContent" style="">Regards </div><div id="_originalContent" style="">Crispin </div><br></div></body></html>