Health impacts of wildfire-related air pollution in Brazil: a nationwide study of more than 2 million hospital admissions between 2008 and 2018

Weeberb J. Requia; Heresh Amini; Rajarshi Mukherjee; Diane R. Gold; Joel D. Schwartz

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26822-7

Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Health impacts of wildfire-related air pollution in Brazil: a nationwide study of more than 2 million hospital admissions between 2008 and 2018

Weeberb J. Requia,
Heresh Amini,
Rajarshi Mukherjee,
Diane R. Gold,
Joel D. Schwartz

Affiliations

Weeberb J. Requia: School of Public Policy and Government, Fundação Getúlio Vargas Brasília
Heresh Amini: Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
Rajarshi Mukherjee: Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston
Diane R. Gold: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University Boston
Joel D. Schwartz: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Boston

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26822-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Brazil is a wildfire-prone region, and few studies have investigated the health impacts of wildfire exposure. Here, the authors show that wildfire waves are associated with an increase of 23% in respiratory hospital admissions and an increase of 21% in circulatory hospital admissions in Brazil.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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