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Background: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 7.1) reinforce to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, safe and renewable energy, and SDG 3 emphasises healthy lives and wellbeing. We hypothesised that the women who use Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) have a better quality of life (QOL) than women who use biofuels for cooking. However, little is known about the association between LPG and QOL. This study compared the wellbeing and health of rural women using LPG with those using biofuels. Methods: We conducted a population-based case-control study in Odisha, India. The cases were rural women who adopted LPG exclusively for two years (LPG Users), and the control were the women with non-adopters of LPG (Non-LPG Users). A total of 900 women, 450 from each group, were randomly selected. We measured prevalence of chronic diseases, and QOL using WHOQOL-BREF and. Findings: The LPG-Users had a better predictor of physical (p |
