Wildfires: evaluating the cardiorespiratory health of wildland firefighters.

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• Personal Author:
  Gaughan, Denise M. ; Hoover, Mark D. ; Kirby CA ; Leonard, Stephen S.
• Description:
  Wildland fires can pose grave occupational health risks to firefighters, as well as risks to wildlife, the environment, and communities. Cardiorespiratory health effects among firefighters are of special concern, along with risks of traumatic injury or death from firefighting-associated activities, such as entrapment in the fire, and from vehicle and air transport crashes. This case study chapter provides public health students and practitioners with an introduction and overview of the increasing risks from wildfires, health issues for firefighters, firefighting organization and practices, and vignettes of experiences and lessons learned from scientific field investigations and laboratory investigations of wildland firefighter (WLFF) health conducted by researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Harvard School of Public Health. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Firefighters Fires Free Radicals Occupational Health Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Wildfires
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Cytokines; Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA); Free Radicals; In Vitro-in Vivo; National Multi-agency Coordinating Group; OMicro-orifice Uniform Deposit Impactor (MOUDI); Oxidized Low-density Lipoprotein Wildfires; Fire Fighters; Fire Fighting; Fire Hazards; Cardiopulmonary System Disorders; Respiratory System Disorders; COPD; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease;
• ISBN:
  9780826149022
• Publisher:
  Springer
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; New Mexico ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 6 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  RHD - Respiratory Health Division ; HELD - Health Effects Laboratory Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  183-209
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065492
• Citation:
  Public health emergencies: case studies, competencies, and essential services of public health. LeBlanc TT, Kim-Farley RJ, eds. New York: Springer, 2021 Dec; :183-209
• Editor(s):
  LeBlanc TT; Kim-Farley RJ
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Public health emergencies: case studies, competencies, and essential services of public health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b51b035139d9fb89baf76d325631549c1b43c67a62a1597c50f6760fd843ca46d49bee6d7f818a2a0f2de5a7c8a331e9279f7e858d3afe451c694d17de206dbc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248735/cdc_248735_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 65.80 MB ]