Physical Health Hazards

Physical hazards include noise, temperature, vibration and radiation. Exposure to these hazards can be short- or long-term and can occur at home, school, work and in the community. We provide expertise to help assess, monitor and address the risk of physical hazards.

 

Event

2023 wildfire smoke exposure and public health in Ontario: Triangulation of evidence

To address these gaps, we leveraged this wildfire event as a natural experiment to quantify the effect of wildfire smoke exposure on selected respiratory and cardiovascular outcomes across Ontario’s 22 largest health regions (~80% of total population) and will present the results in this PHO Rounds.

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Updated 22 Oct 2019