Health impacts of wildfire-related air pollution in Brazil: a nationwide study of more than 2 million hospital admissions between 2008 and 2018

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Health impacts of wildfire-related air pollution in Brazil : a nationwide study of more than 2 million hospital admissions between 2008 and 2018. / Requia, Weeberb J.; Amini, Heresh; Mukherjee, Rajarshi; Gold, Diane R.; Schwartz, Joel D.

In: Nature Communications, Vol. 12, No. 1, 6555, 2021.

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Requia, WJ, Amini, H, Mukherjee, R, Gold, DR & Schwartz, JD 2021, 'Health impacts of wildfire-related air pollution in Brazil: a nationwide study of more than 2 million hospital admissions between 2008 and 2018', Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 6555. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26822-7

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Requia, W. J., Amini, H., Mukherjee, R., Gold, D. R., & Schwartz, J. D. (2021). Health impacts of wildfire-related air pollution in Brazil: a nationwide study of more than 2 million hospital admissions between 2008 and 2018. Nature Communications, 12(1), [6555]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26822-7

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Requia WJ, Amini H, Mukherjee R, Gold DR, Schwartz JD. Health impacts of wildfire-related air pollution in Brazil: a nationwide study of more than 2 million hospital admissions between 2008 and 2018. Nature Communications. 2021;12(1). 6555. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26822-7

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Requia, Weeberb J. ; Amini, Heresh ; Mukherjee, Rajarshi ; Gold, Diane R. ; Schwartz, Joel D. / Health impacts of wildfire-related air pollution in Brazil : a nationwide study of more than 2 million hospital admissions between 2008 and 2018. In: Nature Communications. 2021 ; Vol. 12, No. 1.

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