دورية أكاديمية

Advancing the community health vulnerability index for wildland fire smoke exposure.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Advancing the community health vulnerability index for wildland fire smoke exposure.
المؤلفون: Jung J; Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Electronic address: climategeo@gmail.com., Wilkins JL; Interdisciplinary Studies Department, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA; School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA., Schollaert CL; Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA., Masuda YJ; Partnerships and Programs, Vulcan LLC, Seattle, WA, USA., Flunker JC; Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA., Connolly RE; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA., D'Evelyn SM; Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA., Bonillia E; Interdisciplinary Studies Department, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA., Rappold AG; United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Durham, NC, USA., Haugo RD; The Nature Conservancy, Portland, OR, USA., Marlier ME; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA., Spector JT; Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
المصدر: The Science of the total environment [Sci Total Environ] 2024 Jan 01; Vol. 906, pp. 167834. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 14.
نوع المنشور: Journal Article
اللغة: English
بيانات الدورية: Publisher: Elsevier Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 0330500 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1879-1026 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00489697 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Sci Total Environ Subsets: MEDLINE
أسماء مطبوعة: Original Publication: Amsterdam, Elsevier.
مواضيع طبية MeSH: Smoke*/adverse effects , Wildfires* , Environmental Exposure*/adverse effects, Humans ; Air Pollutants/adverse effects ; Particulate Matter/adverse effects ; Public Health ; United States
مستخلص: Wildland fire smoke risks are not uniformly distributed across people and places, and the most vulnerable communities are often disproportionately impacted. This study develops a county level community health vulnerability index (CHVI) for the Contiguous United States (CONUS) using three major vulnerability components: adaptive capacity, sensitivity, and exposure at the national and regional level. We first calculated sensitivity and adaptive capacity sub-indices using nine sensitivity and twenty adaptive capacity variables. These sub-indices were then combined with an exposure sub-index, which is based on the Community Multiscale Air Quality data (2008-2018), to develop CHVI. Finally, we conducted several analyses with the derived indices to: 1) explore associations between the level of fine particulate matter from wildland fires (fire-PM 2.5 ) and the sub-indices/CHVI; 2) measure the impact of fire-PM 2.5 on the increase in the annual number of days with 12-35 μg/m 3 (moderate) and >35 μg/m 3 (at or above unhealthy for sensitive groups) based on the US EPA Air Quality Index categories, and 3) calculate population size in different deciles of the sub-indices/CHVI. This study has three main findings. First, we showed that the counties with higher daily fire-PM 2.5 concentration tend to have lower adaptive capacity and higher sensitivity and vulnerability. Relatedly, the counties at high risk tended to experience a greater increase in the annual number of days with 12-35 μg/m 3 and >35 μg/m 3 than their counterparts. Second, we found that 16.1, 12.0, and 17.6 million people out of 332 million in CONUS reside in the counties in the lowest adaptive capacity decile, highest sensitivity decile, and highest vulnerability decile, respectively. Third, we identified that the US Northwest, California, and Southern regions tended to have higher vulnerability than others. Accurately identifying a community's vulnerability to wildfire smoke can help individuals, researchers, and policymakers better understand, prepare for, and respond to future wildland fire events.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare there are no competing or conflicts of interest.
(Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
فهرسة مساهمة: Keywords: Adaptive capacity; Assessment; PM(2.5); Sensitivity; Vulnerability; Wildland fire
المشرفين على المادة: 0 (Air Pollutants)
0 (Particulate Matter)
0 (Smoke)
تواريخ الأحداث: Date Created: 20231015 Date Completed: 20231122 Latest Revision: 20231122
رمز التحديث: 20231123
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167834
PMID: 37839481
قاعدة البيانات: MEDLINE
الوصف
تدمد:1879-1026
DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167834