title: [Vulnerability to environmental heat among persons with mental health problems].
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.
authors.affiliation: Département de psychiatrie, Centre universitaire de santé McGill, Institut national de santé publique du Quéebec, 2010-2011.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vida
mesh_terms: D006358:Hot Temperature / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D012307:Risk Factors; D035862:Vulnerable Populations