Forest fire smoke exposures and out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Melbourne, Australia: A case-crossover study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 959-964

  Dennekamp, Martine ^a   Straney, Lahn D ^a   Erbas, Bircan ^b   Abramson, Michael J ^a   Keywood, Melita ^c   Smith, Karen ^a,d,e   Sim, Malcolm R ^a   Glass, Deborah C ^a   Del Monaco, Anthony ^a   Haikerwal, Anjali ^a   Tonkin, Andrew M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d Ambulance Victoria   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; OZONE; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER; SMOKE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIRE; FOREST FIRE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METEOROLOGY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SMOKE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; FEMALE; FOREST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PARTICLE SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; VICTORIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIRES; FORESTS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEX FACTORS; SMOKE; VICTORIA;

EID: 84943311460     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408436     Document Type: Article

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