Health impacts for Indonesia are estimated by transferring the results of regression analysis conducted in Malaysia to the Indonesian situation. The steps required in this process are:
• Review the regression results for Malaysia relating the total number of reported cases of conjunctivitis, asthma, and upper respiratory tract (URT) ailments to values for the API.
• Estimate the number of reported cases in the base situation.
• Match the categories in the API to categories/scores for the HI.
• Estimate the incremental number of reported cases per day per 10,000 population for each category shift in the API and HI.
• Estimate the total number of reported cases in each province in Indonesia, attributable to the haze, based on the province's population, HI score, and number of days of exposure during the haze episode.