UC Cooperative Extension helps people cope with Southern California wildfires
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Birth Weight following Pregnancy during the 2003 Southern California Wildfires
BACKGROUND In late October 2003, a series of wildfires exposed urban populations in Southern California to elevated levels of air pollution over several weeks. Previous research suggests that short-term hospital admissions for respiratory outcomes increased specifically as a result of these fires. OBJECTIVE We assessed the impact of a wildfire event during pregnancy on birth weight among term...
متن کاملThe relationship of respiratory and cardiovascular hospital admissions to the southern California wildfires of 2003.
OBJECTIVE There is limited information on the public health impact of wildfires. The relationship of cardiorespiratory hospital admissions (n = 40 856) to wildfire-related particulate matter (PM(2.5)) during catastrophic wildfires in southern California in October 2003 was evaluated. METHODS Zip code level PM(2.5) concentrations were estimated using spatial interpolations from measured PM(2.5...
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INTRODUCTION In 2007 wildfires ravaged Southern California resulting in the largest evacuation due to a wildfire in American history. We report how these wildfires affected emergency department (ED) visits for respiratory illness. METHODS We extracted data from a Kaiser Permanente database for a single metropolitan community ED. We compared the number of visits due to respiratory illness at t...
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The advent of computers into the Cooperative Extension System (CFS) has created a state in agents’ lives that has been termed “computer anxiety.’ Oetting (1983) defined computer anxiety as “the anxiety that people feel they will experience when they are interacting with computers-the anxiety associated with the concept of computers” (p. 1). Maurer and Simonson (1984) had a similar definition, “...
متن کاملCalifornia Wildfires of 2008: Coarse and Fine Particulate Matter Toxicity
BACKGROUND During the last week of June 2008, central and northern California experienced thousands of forest and brush fires, giving rise to a week of severe fire-related particulate air pollution throughout the region. California experienced PM(10-2.5) (particulate matter with mass median aerodynamic diameter > 2.5 mum to < 10 mum; coarse ) and PM(2.5) (particulate matter with mass median aer...
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عنوان ژورنال: California Agriculture
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0008-0845
DOI: 10.3733/ca.v062n01p8