Objectives Due to accelerating wildland fire activity, there is mounting urgency to
understand, prevent, and mitigate the occupational health impacts associated with wildland …

Firefighters are exposed to a range of harmful substances during firefighting. Exposure to
fire smoke has been associated with a decrease in their lung function. However, the cause …

Objectives To update the mortality experience of a previously studied cohort of 29 992 US
urban career firefighters compared with the US general population and examine exposure …

Objective: Determine effects on respiratory health of firefighters attending a catastrophic
wildfire. Methods: Within the Alberta Administrative Health Database, we identified five …

D iagnoses of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) were first reported in December 2019. Since its …

Most existing quality scales have been developed with minimal attention to accepted
standards of psychometric properties. Even for those that have been used widely in medical …

Objective: To examine changes in pulmonary function over a 5-year period in US firefighters.
Methods: Spirometry values from occupational medical examinations separated by 5 years …

Abstract Background and Objective Urban firefighters are routinely exposed to both physical
and chemical hazards that can negatively impact lung health, but it is unclear if firefighters …

Background Indonesia forest fire in 2015 emitted a huge amount of pollutants into the air.
This study was aimed to assess the health consequences of forest fire smoke in healthy …

Background Occupational health is closely related to harmful factors in the workplace. Dust
is the primary contributing factor causing impaired lung ventilation function among …