TY - JOUR T1 - Injury, energy poverty and climate change JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - 497 LP - 498 DO - 10.1136/ip-2022-044802 VL - 28 IS - 6 AU - Ashley Van Niekerk Y1 - 2022/12/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/28/6/497.abstract N2 - Energy impoverished communities are those that are reliant on ‘traditional’ solid fuels, such as wood and coal, and flammable hydrocarbons, such as paraffin (or kerosene). These fuels are typically burnt in inefficient, polluting and unsafe stoves. Energy poverty is pervasive with about 2.6 billion people that use these fuels for cooking or heating their homes.1 ,2 The health and economic consequences for these communities are far-reaching, and for many families even catastrophic. Energy poverty is a significant contributor to poor health, including burn injury and poisoning, and through household air pollution a sizeable contributor to the global climate crisis.3 The injury and health outcomes are widely reported in Africa, Asia and South America, and especially manifest in communities that rely on fossil fuels. The use of paraffin in particular, has been associated with greater risks for injury, either directly through stove explosions and candle fires, or indirectly through scalding while cooking on structurally deficient or insecure stoves, and through poisoning after ingestion, and other ill effects after toxic … ER -