CDC’s heat & health tracker : a tool that provides community-level information on heat risk

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Environmental Health (U.S.). Environmental Health Tracking Branch.
• Description:
  Extreme heat events have long threatened public health in the United States, and with climate change, we can expect extreme heat events to be more frequent and intense in coming decades. Hot weather is associated with heat-related illness and death caused by cardiovascular and respiratory complications, renal failure, electrolyte imbalance, kidney stones, negative impacts on fetal health, and preterm birth. In an average year in the United States, heat causes 67,512 emergency department visits, 9,235 hospitalizations, and 702 deaths.
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the Heat & Health Tracker to provide timely, local-level, heat and health information to the public. The Heat & Health Tracker features
  
  • Historic, current, forecasted, and projected heat
  
  • Real-time, daily data on heat-related illness
  
  • County-specific information on heat risk and vulnerabilities
  
  • Customizable maps with downscaled population and community data
  
  • Guidance and resources for heat response from CDC and other credible sources
  
  CS 332952-A
  
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  332952-a_fs_heathealth-508.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Environmental Exposure Environmental Health Hot Temperature Population Health Public Health Public Health Surveillance
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Name as Subject:
  Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7a75b2c08f9edbedf1cee628d96a888a003d14aad0a3579b9d6c5dccca6cda14414c724d826b5954a732954727c90198efd5f3dfbba38c449ab89789638522c5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/130390/cdc_130390_DS1.pdf
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