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Portable air cleaners should be at the forefront of the public health response to landscape fire smoke
Landscape fires can produce large quantities of smoke that degrade air quality in both remote and urban communities. Smoke from these fires is a complex mixture of fine particulate matter and gases, exposure to which is associated with increased respiratory and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality...
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5124284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27887618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-016-0198-9 |
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author | Barn, Prabjit K. Elliott, Catherine T. Allen, Ryan W. Kosatsky, Tom Rideout, Karen Henderson, Sarah B. |
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description | Landscape fires can produce large quantities of smoke that degrade air quality in both remote and urban communities. Smoke from these fires is a complex mixture of fine particulate matter and gases, exposure to which is associated with increased respiratory and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The public health response to short-lived smoke events typically advises people to remain indoors with windows and doors closed, but does not emphasize the use of portable air cleaners (PAC) to create private or public clean air shelters. High efficiency particulate air filters and electrostatic precipitators can lower indoor concentrations of fine particulate matter and improve respiratory and cardiovascular outcomes. We argue that PACs should be at the forefront of the public health response to landscape fire smoke events. |
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spelling | pubmed-51242842016-12-08 Portable air cleaners should be at the forefront of the public health response to landscape fire smoke Barn, Prabjit K. Elliott, Catherine T. Allen, Ryan W. Kosatsky, Tom Rideout, Karen Henderson, Sarah B. Environ Health Commentary Landscape fires can produce large quantities of smoke that degrade air quality in both remote and urban communities. Smoke from these fires is a complex mixture of fine particulate matter and gases, exposure to which is associated with increased respiratory and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The public health response to short-lived smoke events typically advises people to remain indoors with windows and doors closed, but does not emphasize the use of portable air cleaners (PAC) to create private or public clean air shelters. High efficiency particulate air filters and electrostatic precipitators can lower indoor concentrations of fine particulate matter and improve respiratory and cardiovascular outcomes. We argue that PACs should be at the forefront of the public health response to landscape fire smoke events. BioMed Central 2016-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5124284/ /pubmed/27887618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-016-0198-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Barn, Prabjit K. Elliott, Catherine T. Allen, Ryan W. Kosatsky, Tom Rideout, Karen Henderson, Sarah B. Portable air cleaners should be at the forefront of the public health response to landscape fire smoke |
title | Portable air cleaners should be at the forefront of the public health response to landscape fire smoke |
title_full | Portable air cleaners should be at the forefront of the public health response to landscape fire smoke |
title_fullStr | Portable air cleaners should be at the forefront of the public health response to landscape fire smoke |
title_full_unstemmed | Portable air cleaners should be at the forefront of the public health response to landscape fire smoke |
title_short | Portable air cleaners should be at the forefront of the public health response to landscape fire smoke |
title_sort | portable air cleaners should be at the forefront of the public health response to landscape fire smoke |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5124284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27887618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-016-0198-9 |
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