P062: SOS: Summer of Smoke--a mixed-methods, community-based study investigating the health effects of a prolonged, severe wildfire season on a subarctic population

• Published in: CJEM
• Main Authors: Howard, C., Rose, C., Dodd, W., Scott, P., Cunsulo-Willox, A., Orbinski, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2017
• Subjects: Emergency Medicine; Dettah; Kakisa; Northwest Territories; Yellowknife; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cem.2017.264; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1481803517002640

Introduction: Between June 15 and Aug 31st 2014, Canada’s Northwest Territories (pop 44,000: Stats Can), a subarctic region which is over 2°C warmer than it was in the 1950’s, experienced an unprecedented number of forest fires, with 385 fires and approximately 3.4 million hectares of forest affecte...