ArticleGeoHealth2019
Smoke Sense Initiative Leverages Citizen Science to Address the Growing Wildfire-Related Public Health Problem.
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- Wildfire and Smoke Risk Communication: A Systematic Literature Review from a Health Equity Focus.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
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- Harnessing Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) for Environmental Epidemiology: A Narrative Review.Current environmental health reports · 2025Review
- Agricultural Employer Perspectives on Occupational Wildfire Smoke Rules.Journal of agromedicine · 2025Article
- Perceptions of and Responses to Wildfire Smoke Among New York State Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Exploring the health impacts of climate change: Challenges and considerations for health services research.Health services research · 2025Article
- Physical Health Symptoms and Perceptions of Air Quality among Residents of Smoke-Damaged Homes from a Wildland Urban Interface Fire.ACS ES&T air · 2025Article
- Understanding rural adaptation to smoke from wildfires and forest management: insights for aligning approaches with community contexts.International journal of wildland fire · 2025Article
- Symptoms Reported by Young Adults With Asthma During Wildfire Smoke Season.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
- Estimating spatially varying health effects of wildland fire smoke using mobile health data.Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics · 2024Article
- An Image-Based Sensor System for Low-Cost Airborne Particle Detection in Citizen Science Air Quality Monitoring.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Impacts of wildfire-season air quality on park and playground visitation in the Northwest United States.Ecological economics : the journal of the International Society for Ecological Economics · 2024Article
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- Smoke on the horizon: leveling up citizen and social science to motivate health protective responses during wildfires.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2024Article
- Clearing the air: evaluating institutions' social media health messaging on wildfire and smoke risks in the US Pacific Northwest.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices about air pollution and its health effects in 6th to 11th-grade students in Colombia: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Interventions to reduce the impact of outdoor air pollution on asthma: A systematic review.African journal of thoracic and critical care medicine · 2024Review
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Abstract
Smoke Sense is a citizen science project with investigative, educational, and action-oriented objectives at the intersection of wildland fire smoke and public health. Participants engage with a smartphone application to explore current and forecast visualizations of air quality, learn about how to protect health from wildfire smoke, and record their smoke experiences, health symptoms, and behaviors taken to reduce their exposures to smoke. Through participation in the project, individuals engage in observing changes in their environment and recording changes in their health, thus facilitating progression on awareness of health effects of air pollution and adoption of desired health-promoting behaviors. Participants can also view what others are reporting. Data from the pilot season (1 August 2017 to 7 January 2018; 5,598 downloads) suggest that there is a clear demand for personally relevant data during wildfire episodes motivated by recognition of environmental hazard and the personal concern for health. However, while participants shared clear perceptions of the environmental hazard and health risks in general, they did not consistently recognize their own personal health risk. The engagement in health protective behavior was driven in response to symptoms rather than as preventive courses of action. We also observed clear differences in the adoption likelihood of various health protective behaviors attributed to barriers and perceived benefits of these actions. As users experience a greater number and severity of symptoms, the perceived benefits of taking health protective actions exceeded the costs associated with the barriers and thus increased adoption of those actions. Based on pilot season data, we summarize key insights which may improve current health risk communications in nudging individuals toward health protective behavior; there is a need to increase personal awareness of risk and compelling evidence that health protective behaviors are beneficial.
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