Breathing Fire: Exploring the Relationship Between Asthma and Forest Fire in California
Document Type
Poster Presentation
Publication Date
5-3-2018
Abstract
The main focus of this project was to determine if there is a relationship between asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits and fires in the state of California. We aimed to pave way towards establishing a connection between natural disasters and respiratory distress. During our analysis we faced many obstacles, mainly data limitations and uncontrollable variables. After collecting and analyzing the available data, it was determined that there is no relationship between the rates of ED visits due to asthma and the amount of forest burned over 10 year time period (2006-2015). While we failed to establish a relationship in that regard, we determined that there is significant variation in asthma rates across regions of California.
Host
Zenodo
Conference/Symposium
Inaugural Larkin University Research Symposium
City/State
Miami, FL
Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Recommended Citation
Baguley, Josh; Srour, Hayat; Fomenko, Ruslan; and Rivera-Mariani, Felix, "Breathing Fire: Exploring the Relationship Between Asthma and Forest Fire in California" (2018). Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations. 1426.
https://spiral.lynn.edu/facpubs/1426
