High community burden of smoke-related symptoms in the Hunter and New England regions during the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires

Zachary Howard; Sandra Carlson; Zoe Baldwin; Fay Johnston; David Durrheim; Craig Dalton

doi:10.1071/phrp30122007

RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

High community burden of smoke-related symptoms in the Hunter and New England regions during the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires

Zachary Howard ^A ^B ^* , Sandra Carlson ^A , Zoe Baldwin ^A , Fay Johnston ^C , David Durrheim ^A ^D and Craig Dalton ^A ^D

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^A Population Health, Hunter New England Local Health District, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

^B Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

^C Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

^D School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

^* Correspondence to: zach.howard@uwa.edu.au

Public Health Research and Practice 30, e30122007 https://doi.org/10.17061/phrp30122007

Published: 9 December 2020

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