Dung T Phung

2 weeks ago | nature.com | Yiwen Zhang |Rongbin Xu |Wenzhong Huang |Tingting Ye |Pei Yu |Wenhua Yu | +18 more

AbstractUnder a warming climate, wildfires are becoming more frequent and severe. Multicountry studies evaluating associations between wildfire fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and respiratory hospitalizations are lacking. Here we evaluate the short-term effects of wildfire-specific PM2.5 on respiratory hospitalizations from 1,052 communities across Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Vietnam, Thailand and Taiwan, during 2000–2019.

1 month ago | bmjopen.bmj.com | CUONG NGUYEN |cường nguyễn |Long Nguyen |Long Nguyễn |Dung T Phung |Tung Vu

MethodsAn online nationwide cross-sectional study on health professionals and medical students in Vietnam was conducted from December 2019 to February 2020. The link for the online study survey was created using the SurveyMonkey platform (surveymonkey.com) to target subjects across different regions in Vietnam. Only the information collected from medical students was included in the study analysis.