Household Energy Insecurity, Health and Sustainable Livelihoods in Colombia

哥伦比亚的家庭能源不安全、健康和可持续生计

• 批准号: 10453280
• 负责人: Godfred Odei Boateng
• 金额: $ 5.4万
• 依托单位: YORK UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-18 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10453280
• 关键词: Achievement; Area; Biodiversity; Body Composition; Caribbean region; Child; Chronic Disease; Colombia; Consumption; Country; Data Collection; Developed Countries; Development; Disadvantaged; Disease; Disease Outcome; Economics; Energy-Generating Resources; Ensure; Evaluation; Fatigue; Food; Generations; Goals; HIV; Health; Heart; Household; Human Activities; Human Development; Human Milk; Income; Infant; Intervention; Kenya; Lactation; Latin America; Life; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Measures; Methodology; Methods; Modernization; Myocardial Ischemia; Nutritional; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Pilot Projects; Policies; Population; Postpartum Women; Poverty; Prevalence; Province; Psychometrics; Research; Research Design; Research Methodology; Resources; Risk; Role; Sampling; Security; Stress; Structure; Surveys; Sustainable Development; Target Populations; Technology; Validation; Variant; Vulnerable Populations; Water; Woman; Women' s Health; access disparities; climate change; dietary restriction; experience; food insecurity; gender equality; health inequalities; indexing; infant outcome; insight; low and middle-income countries; low income country; milk intake; nutrition; poor health outcome; poverty reduction; psychologic; psychosocial; renewable energy; respiratory

Energy access is at the heart of human development and intricately linked to the achievement of the sustainable development goals related to poverty reduction, gender equality, ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being, and climate change. However, household energy insecurity (HEINS) which is the lack of access to adequate, affordable, reliable, acceptable and clean sources of energy for a healthy and sustainable livelihood poses a challenge to many households. Our ability to measure energy in(security) is limited to macro indices, few variations of energy poverty indices, and measures developed for high income countries. There is currently no way of measuring energy insecurity or quantifying its sequelae at the household level in low income countries where access to modern forms of energy is scarce and clean energy transition is incomplete. Thus, the scientific objective of this application is to measure HEINS and examine its role in the poor health outcomes among women, infants and children (WIC) in Colombia. The central hypothesis is that HEINS is detrimental to WIC in disease, economic, nutrition, and psychosocial domains, in ways distinct from food and water insecurity. To do this, the proposed project launches the first phase of a longitudinal study to examine the cumulative health risks and disadvantages of HEINS for the first 1000 days of life. This pilot study will focus on three specific aims. First, develop a scale for measuring energy insecurity at the household level (aim 1); psychometrically evaluate and validate the scale (aim 2); third, assess the prevalence and sequelae of HEINS (aim 3). Methodology. This study will use a mixed-methods research design employing both qualitative and quantitative methods. Methods will specifically include qualitative study of women in Colombia to understand their lived experiences of HEINS, identification of relevant HEINS indicators from existing scales in developed countries, assemble and pilot scale questions for developing settings, develop and psychometrically validate scale questions, and assess statistically the effect of HEINS on the health of WIC. Significance. This exploratory study to understand the experiences of energy insecurity, develop and validate a scale, will facilitate our ability to develop the very first scale on HEINS in Latin America. The ability to measure energy insecurity at the household level will be transformative in advancing our understanding of the causes of a range of adverse health outcomes and their consequence, health inequity. It will also be useful in developing interventions, identifying scalable technologies and policies to mitigate HEINS, and initiate the primary steps to develop a cross-culturally validated scale.

获得能源是人类发展的核心，与实现可持续发展密切相关。 与减贫、性别平等、确保健康生活和促进福祉有关的发展目标， 气候变化然而，家庭能源不安全（HEINS）是缺乏获得充足，负担得起， 为健康和可持续的生计提供可靠、可接受和清洁的能源对许多人来说是一项挑战。 户我们衡量能源安全的能力仅限于宏观指标，能源贫困的变化很少 指数和为高收入国家制定的措施。目前没有办法衡量能源不安全或 在难以获得现代形式能源的低收入国家，量化其在家庭一级的后果 清洁能源转型尚未完成。因此，本申请的科学目的是测量HEINS和 研究其在哥伦比亚妇女、婴儿和儿童（WIC）不良健康结果中的作用。中央 假设是HEINS在疾病、经济、营养和心理社会领域对WIC有害， 与粮食和水不安全不同。为此，拟议项目启动了纵向研究的第一阶段， 检查HEINS在生命的前1000天内累积的健康风险和缺点。这项试点研究将重点关注 三个具体目标。首先，制定衡量家庭一级能源无保障程度的尺度（目标1）; 对量表进行心理测量学评估和验证（目的2）;第三，评估HEINS的患病率和后遗症（目的3）。 方法论本研究将采用定性和定量相结合的研究方法。 方法将具体包括对哥伦比亚妇女进行定性研究，以了解她们的生活经历， 高等教育信息系统，从发达国家现有规模中确定相关的高等教育信息系统指标，组合规模和试验规模 问题的发展设置，发展和心理测量验证规模的问题，并评估统计效果 关于WIC的健康。意义这项探索性研究旨在了解能源不安全的经历， 开发和验证量表，将有助于我们开发拉丁美洲HEINS的第一个量表。的 在家庭层面衡量能源不安全的能力将在促进我们对能源安全的理解方面具有变革性。 一系列不利健康结果的原因及其后果，健康不平等。它也将有助于发展 干预措施，确定可扩展的技术和政策，以减轻HEINS，并启动主要步骤，以制定一个 跨文化验证的规模。