Public Health Practices

Summer heat illness fact sheets in 12 languages help reach limited-English proficient populations

Source Agency: 
California Department of Public Health
,
California

California’s downloadable fact sheet on preventing and treating heat illness is available in Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, English, Farsi, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.

Using vulnerability maps to inform local public health policies, climate change adaptation efforts

Source Agency: 
Austin/Travis County Health & Human Services Department
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Texas

The City of Austin (Texas) used a geospatial program to assess the area’s risks for extreme heat and river flooding.

HSEEP-based emergency exercise toolkit tailors tabletop exercises to the needs of hospitals and health facilities

Source Agency: 
Chicago Department of Public Health
,
Illinois

Chicago's toolkit walks users through planning a heat wave and medical surge scenario for a healthcare tabletop exercise.

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