Heat Illness

General/Overviews

• Are You Ready for a Heat Wave? (American Red Cross) - links to PDF file
• Heat Wave (National Weather Service)
• When Summertime Gets Too Hot To Handle (Food and Drug Administration)

Prevention/Screening

• Extreme Heat: A Prevention Guide to Promote Your Personal Health and Safety (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Heart & Stroke Guide: Hot Weather (American Heart Association)
• Heat-Related Illness: What You Can Do To Prevent It (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• Tips on Managing Heat and Heat-Related Illness (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Specific Conditions/Aspects

• Dehydration-Know the Symptoms (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Outdoor Action Guide to Heat-Related Illnesses & Fluid Balance (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)

Organizations

• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• National Institute on Aging

Children

• Climatic Heat Stress and the Exercising Child (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Heat Illness (American Medical Association)

Seniors

• Hyperthermia: A Hot Weather Hazard for Older People (National Institute on Aging)

Español/Spanish

• Calor Extremo: Medidas de Prevención (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Insolacion (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
• ¿Está usted Preparado para una Ola de Calor? (American Red Cross)