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Table 2 Keywords to be utilized in search strategies

From: Exploring prevention and mitigation strategies to reduce the health impacts of occupational exposure to wildfires for wildland firefighters and related personnel: protocol of a scoping study

Concept

Text words

Wildfire

fire, wildfire, wild fire, forest fire, brush fire, brushfire, wildland fire, bushfire, grassfire, prescribed burn, prescribed fire, smoke pollution, smoke, wood, simulated

Personnel and crew configurations

Firefighter, project firefighter, wildland firefighter, wildfire firefighter, wildfire fighter, forest firefighter, fire ranger, unit crew, handcrew, hotshots, project crew, initial attack, heliattack, helitack, rapattack, rappel crew, parattack, smokejumpers, engine crew, air crew, aerial firefighters, fire base, contract crews, military, forest industry, occupation, suppression

Health outcomes

Health, exposure, casualty, death, disease, illness, morbidity, mortality, effect, adverse effect, impact, health problem, health hazard, mental health, sleep, fatigue, stress, shift work

Intervention or mitigation

Mitigation, intervention, prevention, policy, guidelines