ReviewEnvironmental health perspectives2022
Birth Outcomes, Health, and Health Care Needs of Childbearing Women following Wildfire Disasters: An Integrative, State-of-the-Science Review.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke Exposure.Annual review of medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Human fertility after a disaster: a systematic literature review.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Pooled it
- The effects of maternal wildfire exposure: a 28-year longitudinal study of Chile wildfires and neonatal outcomes.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
- Approach to wildfire-related health impacts.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2026Review
- A Spatial Analytic Approach to Maternal Health Following Hurricane Florence (2018).Maternal and child health journal · 2026Article
- The Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Acute Cardiovascular and Respiratory Illness in the US.Research square · 2026Article
- Applying a climate lens framework to the World Health Organization's maternal and perinatal intervention recommendations.Pregnancy (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Implementation of Disaster Prevention Education and Maternal and Child Health Handbook Guidance for Pregnant Women in Japanese Medical Institutions: A Pilot Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- Antenatal wildfire smoke exposure and preterm birth phenotypes: A retrospective cohort study.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Sex and Gender Influences on the Impacts of Disasters: A Rapid Review of Evidence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- Advancing new metrics for wildfire smoke exposure: case study in Alaska to bridge public health, climate adaptation, and fire management.Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2025Article
- Coexposure to extreme heat, wildfire burn zones, and wildfire smoke in the Western US from 2006 to 2020.Science advances · 2025Article
- Quantifying the association between pregnancy exposure to biomass-attributable PMEnvironmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Wildfire Smoke Exposure and Cause-Specific Hospitalization in Older Adults.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Climate change, food insecurity, and the impacts on child health and nutrition in Brazil: proposal for a conceptual model.Cadernos de saude publica · 2025Review
- Community-Engaged Research and the Use of Open Access ToxVal/ToxRef In Vivo Databases and New Approach Methodologies (NAM) to Address Human Health Risks From Environmental Contaminants.Birth defects research · 2024Article
- Climate change, air pollution and maternal and newborn health: An overview of reviews of health outcomes.Journal of global health · 2024Review
- Mental health impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on mothers.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- Bushfires and Mothers' Mental Health in Pregnancy and Recent Post-Partum.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Breathing in the future: prenatal exposure to air pollution and infants' health outcomes in the USA.Public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe frequency and severity of extreme weather events such as wildfires are expected to increase due to climate change. Childbearing women, that is, women who are pregnant, soon to be pregnant, or have recently given birth, may be particularly vulnerable to the effect of wildfire exposure.
objectivesThis review sought to systematically assess what is known about birth outcomes, health, and health care needs of childbearing women during and after exposure to wildfires.
methodsAn integrative review methodology was utilized to enable article selection, data extraction, and synthesis across qualitative and quantitative studies. Comprehensive searches of SCOPUS (including MEDLINE and Embase), CINAHL, PubMed, and Google Scholar identified studies for inclusion with no date restriction. Included studies were independently appraised by two reviewers using the Crowe Critical Appraisal Tool. The findings are summarized and illustrated in tables.
resultsDatabase searches identified 480 records. Following title, abstract, and full text screening, sixteen studies published between 2012 and 2022 were identified for this review. Eleven studies considered an association between DISCUSSION: Evidence indicates that wildfire exposure may be associated with changes to birth outcomes and increased morbidity for childbearing women and their babies. These effects may be profound and have long-term and wide-ranging public health implications. This research can inform the development of effective clinical and public health strategies to address the needs of childbearing women exposed to wildfire disaster. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP10544.
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