Uncertainty in Health Impact Assessments of Smoke From a Wildfire Event.

ABSTRACT: Wildfires cause elevated air pollution that can be detrimental to human health. However, health impact assessments associated with emissions from wildfire events are subject to uncertainty arising from different sources. Here, we quantify and compare major uncertainties in mortality and morbidity outcomes of exposure to fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) pollution estimated for a series of wildfires in the Southeastern U.S. We present an approach to compare uncertainty in estimated health impacts specifically due to two driving factors, wildfire-related smoke PM_2.5 fields and variability in concentration-response parameters from epidemiologic studies of ambient and smoke PM_2.5. This analysis, focused on the 2016 Southeastern wildfires, suggests that emissions

SUBMITTER: Johnson MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8724531 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature