This study investigated the impact of bushfires and control
burning on the respiratory health of the community using the
bushfires database from the Department of Environment and
Conservation in Western Australia.
This study provided comparisons of the asthma disease burden
within the context of bushfire events in Western Australia using
the linked dataset of hospital admissions and deaths due to asthma,
data from the WA Health Survey and also Emergency Department data,
in conjunction with WA land-use maps.
Yih-Pyng Lee has completed her study.
