Forest Fires, Air Polution and Mortality in Southeast Asia

Abstract

In this paper, we assess the population health effects in Malaysia of air pollution generated by a widespread series of fires that occurred mainly in Indonesia between April and November of 1997. We describe how the forest fires occurred and why the associated air pollution was so widespread and long lasting. The main objective is to determine whether there were mortality effects and to assess how large and important these were. We also investigate whether the mortality effects were persistent or whether they simply represented a short-term, mortality harvesting effect. Our results show that the smoke haze from these fires had a deleterious effect on population health in Malaysia.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA387131

Entities

People

  • Narayan Sastry

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Pollution
  • Climate Change
  • Combustion
  • Demography
  • Dielectric Gases
  • Ecology
  • Environment
  • Environmental Health
  • Environmental Protection
  • Fires
  • Governments
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • Greenhouse Gases
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Southeast Asia
  • Vital Statistics

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

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