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Parallels Between Community Environmental Health and Occupational Health



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  • Personal Author:
    Hinds WC
  • Description:
    This is a commentary in response to: Wildland forest fire smoke: health effects and intervention evaluation, Hoopa, California, 1999.,Mott JA, Meyer P, Mannino D, Redd SC, Smith EM, Gotway-Crawford C, Chase E West J Med. 2002 May; 176(3):157-62, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071703/. Since September 11, 2001, there has been increased attention on what individuals and communities can do to minimize the effects of terrorist attacks, and other disasters, on the health and safety of our family, friends, and community. The article by Mott and colleagues focuses on one such disaster-a forest fire. It provides retrospective data that can give us some idea about which interventions work and which do not in preventing respiratory health problems. Unlike most disaster situations, the forest fire that occurred from August to November 1999 near the Hoopa Valley National Indian Reservation in northern California caused a gradual buildup of smoke concentration in the residential area of the reservation. This gradual buildup provided an opportunity for local health officials to implement health-protective measures. The results of a follow-up study, reported here, provide some guidance for health planning in fire-prone areas and more generally for response to other natural and human-made disasters. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • ISSN:
    0093-0415
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Journal Article
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    162-163
  • Volume:
    176
  • Issue:
    3
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20057861
  • Citation:
    West J Med 2002 Jun; 176(3):162-163
  • Contact Point Address:
    William C Hinds, Professor Department of Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health, 650 Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1772
  • Email:
    whinds@ucla.edu
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2002
  • Performing Organization:
    University of California, School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    19990701
  • Source Full Name:
    Western Journal of Medicine
  • End Date:
    20040630
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:304a1b4ea85ab9cc5317d5c1fd84941d8fc46743844329d45a5180b8e9bf7b1d67bd1a6a7c7e37f6d394e34f66478a5d0e44de1f91e629c248fa812bca4ab1dc
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