A systematic review of the physical health impacts from non-occupational exposure to wildfire smoke

Environmental Research

Volumn 136, Issue , 2015, Pages 120-132

  Liu, Jia C ^a   Pereira, Gavin ^b   Uhl, Sarah A ^a   Bravo, Mercedes A ^a   Bell, Michelle L ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Forest Fire; Health; Smoke; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RISK; LITERATURE REVIEW; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKE; WILDFIRE;

AGED; AIR MONITOR; AIR POLLUTION; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXPOSURE; FIRE; FOREST; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; REMOTE SENSING; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE;

AUSTRALIA; UNITED STATES;

SMOKE;

AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIRES; HUMANS; SMOKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84911374645     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2014.10.015     Document Type: Review

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