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- Which Populations Experience Greater Risks of Adverse Health Effects . . .
Key risk factors that shape whether a population or individual is at greater risk of health effects from wildfire smoke have been identified primarily from epidemiologic studies examining exposure to fine particle pollution in urban settings Evidence indicates that the risk of fine particle-related health effects varies throughout a lifetime
- Wildfire | National Risk Index - FEMA
Wildfire Historic Loss Ratio A Wildfire historic loss ratio is the representative percentage of the exposed consequence type value (building, population, or agriculture) expected to be lost due to a Wildfire hazard occurrence
- Wildfire smoke exposure and early childhood respiratory health: a study . . .
Spatial distribution of total number of wildfire smoke-days (2010–2016) at each MSA for the (a) 0%, b 25%, and (c) 50% thresholds Thresholds are defined as the population-weighted percentage of zip codes within a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) required to experience a smoke-day, in order to assign a smoke-day to the MSA
- WILDFIRE SMOKE: A GUIDE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS - AirNow
Particulate matter is the principal public health threat from short-and longer-term exposure to wildfire smoke and is the focus of most of this document While particles from wildfire smoke can vary in size (see Section II Wildfire Smoke and Air Quality Impacts), approximately 90% of total particle mass emitted from wildfires consists of fine particles (i e , PM 2 5, particles 2 5 μm in
- WILDFIRE SMOKE FACT SHEET At-Risk Groups of People - AirNow
These groups include: People from some ethnic and racial minority groups Why: Ethnic and racial minority groups can be exposed to wildfire smoke due to economic, social, environmental, and other factors that may limit their ability to reduce their exposure to wildfire smoke like using air cleaners or leaving an area
- Developing an online tool for identifying at-risk populations to . . .
We foresee that this tool will decrease the time to identify impacted communities, help to identify and enumerate vulnerable populations, better characterize population-level exposure, and inform implementation of appropriate interventions for those areas affected by wildfire smoke hazards
- Community Vulnerability to Health Impacts of Wildland Fire Smoke Exposure
We developed a Community Health-Vulnerability Index (CHVI) based on factors known to increase the risks of health e ects from air pollution and ff wild re smoke exposures These factors included county prevalence rates fi for asthma in children and adults, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, percent of population 65 years of age and older, and indicators of
- Advancing the community health vulnerability index for wildland fire . . .
Wildland fire smoke risks are not uniformly distributed across people and places, and the most vulnerable communities are often disproportionately impacted This study develops a county level community health vulnerability index (CHVI) for the Contiguous United States (CONUS) using three major vulnerability components: adaptive capacity, sensitivity, and exposure at the national and regional
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