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Bushfires, bushfire smoke and your health
This fact sheet explains the difference between planned burns and bushfires, and how bushfires and their smoke can affect your physical and mental health. It covers risks like burns, heat stress, smoke-related illness, and stress or trauma, and gives advice on how to stay safe and where to get help.
- Organisation:
- Migrant Resource Centre Tasmania
- Topic:
- Lungs, Environmental health
- Target audience:
- General
- Service area:
- TAS
- Published:
- December 2022
- Last reviewed:
- July 2025
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