Citation

Wallace R. Int. Arch. Occup. Environ. Health 1982; 50(1): 33-51.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1982, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

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PMID

7085086

Abstract

Reductions in the fire service in New York City from 1972 to 1976 appear to have caused a disproportionate increase in fire-fighter work load through several unexpected mechanisms of fire contagion. In turn, the work load increase has itself had a disproportionate physiologic impact: A classic dose-response relation has been observed between a composite measure of per capita structural fire work load and the percentage of the fire-fighting work force retiring under conditions of disability. After 1974, the increase in work load seems to have caused entry to the 'linear' portion of the dose-response curve. Implications of this synergism are explored for both New York City and other American urban areas now suffering 'fiscal crises' or planning fire service reductions.

Language: en