Air quality and health impacts of the 2020 wildfires in California

Fire Ecology

Table 2 Concentration response functions used to quantify health impacts. Function forms shown in Table 3

Endpoint group	Author	Age range	Function form	β	A
Ozone
Hospital admissions, asthma	Moore et al., 2008	0–19	3	1.86E–06	2
Hospital admissions, respiratory	Katsouyanni et al., 2009	65–99	2	0.000614
Mortality	Bell et al., 2005	0–99	1	0.000186	0.00274
PM_2.5
Hospital admissions, respiratory	Zanobetti et al., 2009	65–99	5	0.00207
Hospital admissions, acute myocardial infarction^a	Pope et al., 2006	0–99	4	0.00481
Hospital admissions, acute myocardial infarction^a	Sullivan et al., 2005	0–99	4	0.00198
Hospital admissions, acute myocardial infarction^a	Zanobetti and Schwartz, 2006	0–99	4	0.0053
Hospital admissions, acute myocardial infarction^a	Zanobetti et al., 2009	0–99	2	0.00225
Hospital admissions, other cardiovascular	Moolgavkar, 2000	18–64	2	0.0014
Hospital admissions, other cardiovascular	Moolgavkar, 2003	65–99	2	0.00158
Work loss days	Ostro, 1987	18–64	2	0.0046
Mortality	Atkinson et al., 2014	0–99	1	0.000936	0.00274

^aThese functions are representative of the same end point and same population. The results of these functions are averaged to estimate the overall change in hospital admissions due to acute myocardial infarction