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- Title
Chaleur accablante et santé mentale : vulnérabilité des personnes avec troubles mentaux.
- Authors
Vida, Stephen
- Abstract
This review is intended to alert health professionals to the particular vulnerability of persons with mental health problems or taking certain medications to heat-related illness, a threat that is increasing due to climate change. It reviews epidemiology, physiology and clinical features of heat-related illness. For acute medical management, it refers readers to existing guidelines and recommendations. It reviews risk and protective factors. Finally, it presents preventive strategies that may help reduce the impact of heat-related illness in this population.
- Subjects
CANADA; CLIMATOLOGY; MEDICAL protocols; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of heat; MENTAL illness; PREVENTION
- Publication
Sante Mentale au Quebec, 2011, Vol 36, Issue 2, p97
- ISSN
0383-6320
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1008592ar