Health Guidelines for Vegetation Fire Events - Guideline document

This WHO document on the Health Guidelines for Vegetation Fire Events is the outcome of the WHO-UNEP-WMO expert task force meeting held in Lima, Perú, in October 1998. This Guideline document is accompanied by a document with the background papers presented and discussed at the meeting and used for the preparation of these guidelines. A Teachers’ Guide has also been prepared that allows the presentation of the essential contents of the Health Guidelines in a four day training course.

Note to the user: This document is the pre-publication version (not identical with the printed volume). The final electronic form of this document is available on the CD ROM of the Healthy Cities Air Management Information System AMIS and on the Web sites of the World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/peh/air/vegetation_fires.htm) and the Global Fire Monitoring Center (http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de).