野火和心理健康初步证据

Tamara L. Sheldon and Crystal Zhan 2024 Big Data Health Science ConferenceWildfires and Mental HealthPreliminary EvidenceClimate Change

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(Liu et al., 2016; Mansoor et al., 2022)Introduction•Wildfires are understudied. •Some evidence that floods are associated with worse mental health (Fernandez et al., 2015; Raker et al., 2019) •Evidence that PM2.5, outside of the context of wildfires, is associated with worse mental health (Braithwaite et al., 2019) •Various mechanisms: trauma, physiological, isolation, … •What is impact of wildfires on mental health?Data1. NASA Fire Points•Publicly available wildfire data from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Products Server of the NOAA Satellite and Information Service •Coordinates of fire points, shape files of smoke polygons, start and end dates/times •2003-2021Data2. Wildfire-driven PM2.5•Publicly available wild