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Chapter 10 AIR QUALITY DURING HAZE EPISODES AND ITS IMPACT ON HEALTH Kathryn Ostermann Atmospheric Sciences Program, The University of British Columbia, and Michael Brauer School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, The University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver BC, Canada V6T 1Z3 E-mail: brauer@interchange.ubc.ca Introduction There are only a limited number of studies directly evaluating the community health impacts of air pollution from vegetation fires, such as those that affected Southeast Asia in 1997 and 1998. In this chapter we describe the available i