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SPOTLIGHT ARCHIVE: Heat Related Illness
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Learning products and resources designed to assist the public health community in prevent heat-related illness. Learn ways to recognize and treat heat-related illness among those most at risk through the following products and resources.
Heat Related Illness Learning Products
Beat the Heat: Heat Illness Prevention And Treatment
- Presents information on what puts youth athletes at risk
- Provides factors that increase the risk for heat-related illness and steps that can be taken to prevent it
Excessive Heat Events Guidebook
- Provides information for local public health officials to develop and implement excessive heat events notification and response programs
Gatorade Heat Safety Package
- Presents information, tips and guidelines for coaches in preventing heat related illnesses associate with athletes
Heat Related Illness (HRI) Prevention
- Learn about the different types of heat-related illness
- Determine how to recognize, treat, and prevent heat related illness
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) Technical Manual: Section III: Chapter 4, Heat Stress
- Describes heat disorders and health effects
- Provides guidelines and information for conducting an investigation
Medscape CME Case Presentation: Altered Mental Status in a Young Man Picked Up on the Street
- Intended for clinicians in primary care, emergency care, critical care, and cardiology
- Highlights common concepts, situations, and presentations that clinicians will encounter on a regular basis
Heat Related Illness Resources
Valuable training and learning resources on the Spotlight topic, intended for the public health community.
- 2009-10 NCAA: Sports Medicine Handbook (See Prevention of Heat Illness)
- Drug-Associated Heat Stroke
- Exertional Heat Illness during Training and Competition
- CDC. Heat Illness Among High School Athletes MMWR 2010.
- CDC. Heat-Related Death Among Crop Workers. MMWR 2008.
- Heat Stress Index Calculator
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Heat Wave: A Major Summer Killer
- National Ag Safety Database (NASD): Dangers of Heat Stress
- NIOSH Science Blog: Summer Hazards for Workers
- NIOSH Workplace Safety and Health Topics (See information related to recommendations for employers and workers)
- Reducing Urban Heat Islands: Compendium of Strategies
- Washington State Department of Labor & Industries: Heat Illness Training Kit
Additional Heat Related Illness Resources
A range of resources on the Spotlight topic relevant to specific audiences, or useful to the general public.
- NCAA resources help student-athletes beat the heat
- Naval Safety Center Acquisition Safety — Heat Stress
- Keep Your Cool Podcast
Information regarding training products and resources featured in the Spotlight was provided by
- TrainingFinder Real-time Affiliate Integrated Network (TRAIN), a free service of the Public Health Foundation
- National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
Links to non-federal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. These links do not constitute an endorsement of these organizations or their programs by CDC or the federal government, and none should be inferred. CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at these links.
