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Time Use Implication of Clean Cookstoves in Rural Settings in Ghana: A Time Use Study

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  • Rebecca Kyerewaa Dwommoh Prah

    (Kintampo Health Research Centre, P. O. Box 200 Kintampo, Ghana)

  • Daniel Carrion

    (Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA)

  • Felix Boakye Oppong

    (Kintampo Health Research Centre, P. O. Box 200 Kintampo, Ghana)

  • Theresa Tawiah

    (Kintampo Health Research Centre, P. O. Box 200 Kintampo, Ghana)

  • Mohammed Nuhu Mujtaba

    (Kintampo Health Research Centre, P. O. Box 200 Kintampo, Ghana)

  • Stephaney Gyaase

    (Kintampo Health Research Centre, P. O. Box 200 Kintampo, Ghana)

  • Adolphine Kwarteng

    (Kintampo Health Research Centre, P. O. Box 200 Kintampo, Ghana)

  • Kenneth Ayuurebobi Ae-Ngibise

    (Kintampo Health Research Centre, P. O. Box 200 Kintampo, Ghana)

  • Oscar Agyei

    (Kintampo Health Research Centre, P. O. Box 200 Kintampo, Ghana)

  • Mieks Twumasi

    (Kintampo Health Research Centre, P. O. Box 200 Kintampo, Ghana)

  • Francis Agbokey

    (Kintampo Health Research Centre, P. O. Box 200 Kintampo, Ghana)

  • Kwaku Poku Asante

    (Kintampo Health Research Centre, P. O. Box 200 Kintampo, Ghana)

  • Darby W. Jack

    (Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA)

Abstract

Whilst the health benefit of using clean cookstoves and fuels is widely known, there is limited information on the non-health benefit of these stoves, especially in low-middle-income countries. This paper reports the time use implications of using clean cookstoves and fuels by comparing liquified petroleum gas (LPG), an improved biomass cookstove (BioLite), and traditional biomass cookstoves (three-stone fires) in Ghana. Using survey-based time diaries, information on all the activities undertaken by study participants during a 24-h was collected and analyzed. The findings of the study show that LPG users spent significantly less time gathering firewood compared to the users of improved cookstoves and three-stone fires. LPG users spent slightly less time per cooking episode, generally, and there was no significant difference in cooking time across the three cookstoves mostly due to stove stacking. Time spent engaging in economic activities was highest for LPG users and improved biomass cookstove users, at least when compared to three-stone fire users. In this study, we provide evidence on the time use implications of clean cookstoves, highlighting their non-health benefits and supporting efforts towards the adoption and sustained used of clean cookstoves

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  • Rebecca Kyerewaa Dwommoh Prah & Daniel Carrion & Felix Boakye Oppong & Theresa Tawiah & Mohammed Nuhu Mujtaba & Stephaney Gyaase & Adolphine Kwarteng & Kenneth Ayuurebobi Ae-Ngibise & Oscar Agyei & Mi, 2020. "Time Use Implication of Clean Cookstoves in Rural Settings in Ghana: A Time Use Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(1), pages 1-15, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2020:i:1:p:166-:d:469642
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