Health impacts of smoke exposure in South America: increased risk for populations in the Amazonian Indigenous territories

• Main Authors: E X Bonilla (Author), L J Mickley (Author), G Raheja (Author), S D Eastham (Author), J J Buonocore (Author), A Alencar (Author), L Verchot (Author), D M Westervelt (Author), M C Castro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: IOP Publishing, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Smoke particulate matter emitted by fires in the Amazon Basin poses a threat to human health. Past research on this threat has mainly focused on the health impacts on countries as a whole or has relied on hospital admission data to quantify the health response. Such analyses do not capture the impac...