Contrasting Health Outcomes following a Severe Smoke Episode and Ambient Air Pollution in Early Life: Findings from an Australian Data Linkage Cohort Study of Hospital Utilization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Episodic spikes in air pollution due to landscape fires are increasing, and their potential for longer term health impacts is uncertain.

Objective

Our objective is to evaluate associations between exposure in utero and in infancy to severe pollution from a mine fire, background ambient air pollution, and subsequent hospital care.

Methods

We linked health records of births, emergency department (ED) visits, and hospitalizations of children born in the Latrobe Valley, Australia, 2012-2015, which included a severe pollution episode from a mine fire (9 February 2014 to 25 March 2014). We assigned modeled exposure estimates for fire-related and ambient particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5μm (PM2.5) to residential address. We used logisti

SUBMITTER: Ziou M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10644899 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature