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Impact of large wildfires on PM10 levels and human mortality in Portugal
Patricia Tarín-Carrasco
Physics of the Earth, Regional Campus of International Excellence (CEIR) “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Sofia Augusto
EPIUnit – Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade de Lisboa (CE3C-FC-ULisboa), Lisbon, Portugal
Laura Palacios-Peña
Physics of the Earth, Regional Campus of International Excellence (CEIR) “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Dept. of Meteorology, Meteored, Almendricos, Spain
Nuno Ratola
LEPABE-Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Physics of the Earth, Regional Campus of International Excellence (CEIR) “Campus Mare Nostrum”, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Biomedical Research Institute of Murcia (IMIB-Arrixaca), Murcia, Spain
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Uncontrolled wildfires have a substantial impact on the environment and local populations. Although most southern European countries have been impacted by wildfires in the last decades, Portugal has the highest percentage of burned area compared to its whole territory. Under this umbrella, associations between large fires, PM10, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality (circulatory and respiratory) have been explored using Poisson regression models for 2001–2016.
Uncontrolled wildfires have a substantial impact on the environment and local populations....
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