The Shamba Chef Educational Entertainment Program to Promote Modern Cookstoves in Kenya: Outcomes and Dose-Response Analysis

Globally, an estimated 3.6 billion people rely on solid fuels for cooking over open fires or in simple cookstoves. Universal access to clean cooking fuels and technology by 2030 is a United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal. The Mediae Company created a home makeover television and radio sh...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2019-12, Vol.17 (1), p.162
Main Authors: Evans, W Douglas, Young, Bonnie N, Johnson, Michael A, Jagoe, Kirstie A, Charron, Dana, Rossanese, Madeleine, Morgan, K Lloyd, Gichinga, Patricia, Ipe, Julie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Air Pollution, Indoor - prevention & control
Attitude
Biomass
Biomass energy
Charcoal
Communication
Consumer Behavior
Cooking
Cooking - methods
Cost control
Exposure
Female
Fires
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Household Articles
Household Products
Households
Humans
Intervention
Kenya
Kerosene
Liquefied petroleum gas
LPG
Nutrition
Nutritional Sciences
Ovens & stoves
Pollutants
Social marketing
Solid fuels
Stoves
Sustainable development
Technology
Television
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Summary:Globally, an estimated 3.6 billion people rely on solid fuels for cooking over open fires or in simple cookstoves. Universal access to clean cooking fuels and technology by 2030 is a United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal. The Mediae Company created a home makeover television and radio show, , designed to promote modern, cleaner, safer cooking methods and improved nutrition in Kenya, which reached 5 million homes in late 2017. This was accompanied by a mobile phone platform called iChef. Researchers evaluated the effects of on cookstove purchase, use, and attitudes, beliefs, and intentions. The study revealed dose-response effects of exposure on several key outcomes. Exposure to the program was associated with an awareness of improved biomass stoves (OR 4.4; 95% CI 2.8 to 6.9), and aspirations to own an improved biomass stove (OR 2.0; 95% CI 1.4 to 2.9). Receiving information about modern stoves from two or more sources generated greater awareness of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stoves (OR 2.0; 95% CI 1.3 to 3.1). The qualitative study revealed that explained how the stoves worked, communicated their benefits, and encouraged participants to trust and purchase those cookstoves. was successful in influencing determinants of cookstove purchase and use, and there is evidence from the qualitative study that it influenced the purchase and use of improved biomass stoves.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph17010162