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A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Burden of Heat-Related Illness and Death within the Florida Population

States that the failure of the human body to thermoregulate can lead to severe outcomes (e.g., death) and lasting physiological damage
States, however, heat-related illness (HRI) is highly preventable via individual- and community-level modification.
Describes the burden of severe HRI morbidity and mortality among residents of a humid subtropical climate
Finds that the sub-groups with the highest relative rates regardless of data source or work-relatedness were males, minorities, and rural residents
Finds that those aged 15–35 years had the highest ED visit rates, while for non-work-related hospitalizations and deaths the rates increased with age