Extreme weather and climate change: population health and health system implications

KL Ebi, J Vanos, JW Baldwin, JE Bell… - Annual review of …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Extreme weather and climate events, such as heat waves, cyclones, and floods, are an
expression of climate variability. These events and events influenced by climate change …

Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States

DA Jaffe, SM O'Neill, NK Larkin, AL Holder… - Journal of the Air & …, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
Air quality impacts from wildfires have been dramatic in recent years, with millions of people
exposed to elevated and sometimes hazardous fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme weather impacts of climate change: an attribution perspective

B Clarke, F Otto, R Stuart-Smith… - Environmental Research …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme event attribution aims to elucidate the link between global climate change, extreme
weather events, and the harms experienced on the ground by people, property, and nature …

Wildfire, smoke exposure, human health, and environmental justice need to be integrated into forest restoration and management

SM D'Evelyn, J Jung, E Alvarado… - Current environmental …, 2022‏ - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United
States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a …

Associations between wildfire smoke exposure during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth in California

S Heft-Neal, A Driscoll, W Yang, G Shaw… - Environmental Research, 2022‏ - Elsevier
There is limited population-scale evidence on the burden of exposure to wildfire smoke
during pregnancy and its impacts on birth outcomes. In order to investigate this relationship …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change, landscape fires, and human health: a global perspective

FH Johnston, G Williamson… - Annual Review of …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Landscape fires are an integral component of the Earth system and a feature of prehistoric,
subsistence, and industrial economies. Specific spatiotemporal patterns of landscape fire …

Health effects of wildfire smoke in children and public health tools: a narrative review

SM Holm, MD Miller, JR Balmes - Journal of exposure science & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Wildfire smoke is an increasing environmental health threat to which children are particularly
vulnerable, for both physiologic and behavioral reasons. To address the need for improved …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme heat, preterm birth, and stillbirth: a global analysis across 14 lower-middle income countries

S McElroy, S Ilango, A Dimitrova, A Gershunov… - Environment …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Stillbirths and complications from preterm birth are two of the leading causes of neonatal
deaths across the globe. Lower-to middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing some …

Climate change and children's health: building a healthy future for every child

S Ahdoot, CR Baum, MB Cataletto, P Hogan… - …, 2024‏ - publications.aap.org
Observed changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, sea level, and extreme weather
are destabilizing major determinants of human health. Children are at higher risk of climate …

Estimated mortality and morbidity attributable to smoke plumes in the United States: Not just a western US problem

K O'Dell, K Bilsback, B Ford, SE Martenies… - …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
As anthropogenic emissions continue to decline and emissions from landscape (wild,
prescribed, and agricultural) fires increase across the coming century, the relative …