Estimated global mortality attributable to smoke from landscape fires

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 695-701

  Johnston, Fay H ^a   Henderson, Sarah B ^b,c,d   Chen, Yang ^e   Randerson, James T ^e   Marlier, Miriam ^f   DeFries, Ruth S ^f   Kinney, Patrick ^f   Bowman, David M J S ^b   Brauer, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Biomass burning; Carbon cycle; Deforestation; Global burden of disease; Landscape fire smoke; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AFRICA; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIRE; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MORTALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKE; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84859320791     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104422     Document Type: Article

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