When a wildfire rages, the flames aren't the only threat. The smoke poses its own risks. Fine particles and harmful chemicals can get into your lungs and bring on a number of health problems. Some people are more sensitive to the smoke than others, but everyone should do what they can ...
Understanding the effects of wildfire smoke on mental health and well-being is crucial as the world enters a time in which wildfire smoke events become more frequent and severe. We conducted a scoping review of the existing information on wildfire smoke's impact on mental health and well-being...
A new study estimates tens of thousands of people in California died premature deaths due to wildfire smoke from 2008 to 2018. The study, conducted by researchers at UCLA and published in Science Advances, found particulate matter (known as PM2.5) from wildfires led to 52,500 to 55,700 ...
To address the need for improved public health messaging this review summarizes current knowledge and knowledge gaps in the health effects of wildfire smoke in children, as well as tools for public health response aimed at children, including consideration of low-cost sensor data, respirators, and...
The potential cardiovascular effects of wildfire smoke are less well known compared with other kinds of air pollution, he said, “but based on what we know from air pollution in general, there’s very few organ systems that are not affected.” ...
The potential cardiovascular effects of wildfire smoke are less well known compared with other kinds of air pollution, he said, “but based on what we know from air pollution in general, there’s very few organ systems that are not affected.” ...
A new study estimates tens of thousands of people in California died premature deaths due to wildfire smoke from 2008 to 2018. Kevin Ko reports. (6-21-24) Website: http://kpix.com YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CBSSanFrancisco ...
"We have long known about the harmful health effects of wildfire smoke," says Jiayun Angela Yao, the study's lead author who conducted this research while completing her Ph.D. in the UBC School of Population and Public Health. "But it's alarming to see just how quickly fine particular ma...
County-level sociodemographic characteristics seem to not modulate the effects of wildfire smoke on respiratory hospitalizations. This novel two-stage framework can be applied in broader settings to understand spatially and temporally compounded health impacts of climate hazards. We provide codes in R for...
at the cost of wildfires, you also have to account for the cost to human health," Fu said. "Although there is consistent evidence for the associations betweenwildfireevents and disease, there have been very few studies using the method on the human health impact of wildfire smoke until now....