Beat the Heat: How to keep someone healthy during hot weather
This booklet provides important information about health and hot weather. The booklet is for anyone who cares for, supports or assists people at risk of serious health effects from hot weather. It includes tips and ideas on how to keep someone healthy during hot weather.
Salmonellosis
A guide to the foodborne disease, salmonellosis, including symptoms and prevention with good hygiene.
Viral Gastroenteritis
Information on viral gastroenteritis, including how infections is spread, prevention, symptoms and treatment.
Cryptosporidiosis
A guide to cryptosporidiosis, an infection which causes diarrhoea.Includes information on causes, prevention and symptoms.
Leptospirosis
A guide to leptospirosis, a bacterial infection that can affect humans and animals, and which is more common in north eastern NSW and Queensland.People who have close contact with animals are more at risk from this disease. Information includes causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment.
Psittacosis
Information about psittacosis, an uncommon disease that can be passed to humans by birds. Includes causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment.
Beat the Heat, Health Tips for a Safe Season
Advice on some things you can do to minimise your risk of heat related illness
Beat the heat translated resources
Extreme heat or heatwaves are periods of unusually hot weather. In Australia, extreme heat events are responsible for more deaths than all other natural hazard events combined. Hot weather can affect everyone, however those at greater risk include older people, people with existing medical conditions, babies and young children, outdoor workers, socially isolated people, people who are homeless and pregnant women. Climate change is resulting in more hot days and more intense heatwaves. Now more than ever, it is important to know the risks of heat, who is at risk, how to prepare, and how to protect ourselves and others.
Murray Valley Encephalitis
A guide to Murray Valley Encephalitis (MVE), a serious mosquito borne disease, usually occurring in remore north western Australia.
Giardiasis
Causes and prevention of giardiasis, an intestinal infection causing symptoms like diarrhoea, stomach cramps and nausea.