Critical review of health impacts of wildfire smoke exposure

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1334-1343

  Reid, Colleen E ^a,b   Brauer, Michael ^c   Johnston, Fay H ^d,e   Jerrett, Michael ^a,f   Balmes, John R ^a,g   Elliott, Catherine T ^c,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e Department of Health and Human Services ^*  (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h Yukon Health and Social Services   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ASTHMA; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TOXICITY; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WILDFIRE SMOKE EXPOSURE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FIRE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SMOKE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

SMOKE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIRES; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SMOKE;

EID: 84974586294     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1409277     Document Type: Review

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