Cold-Related Injuries

COVID-19 & the HCH Community: Six Crises Leading into Winter 2020

This issue brief focuses on the challenges of the upcoming winter season—COVID-19, flu season, winter weather, evictions, social upheaval, and collective trauma-and the essential actions that emergency response systems, state/local governments, and direct service organizations need to take in order to protect people experiencing homelessness as temperatures drop. Download Research (PDF)

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Developing a Cold Weather Sheltering Plan for People Experiencing Homelessness Webinar

Webinar Slides(PDF) With the arrival of the winter season, many communities are developing and activating emergency cold weather sheltering plans for people who are experiencing homelessness. This webinar, co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Health Care for the Homeless

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Winter Homeless Services: Bringing Our Neighbors in from the Cold

Seven hundred people experiencing or at risk of homelessness are killed from hypothermia annually in the United States. Forty-four percent of the nation’s homeless are unsheltered. From the urban streets of our populated cities to the remote back-country of rural America, hypothermia – or subnormal temperature in the body – remains a leading, critical and

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Healing Hands: Exposure-Related Conditions: Symptoms & Prevention Strategies

Exposure-related conditions are a constant reality faced by homeless individuals who spend most days and many nights outside. Without shelter against the elements, they are dependent on mild temperatures and dry weather for a tolerable existence. And while some people who live on the streets may have tents or cardboard structures to provide a modicum

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A Case of Trench Foot in a Homeless Woman

This article describes a cold-related tissue injury that may be overlooked by healthcare practitioners who treat homeless clients: trench foot. Trench foot is a preventable condition which can be mitigated by early intervention but which, because it occurs at above-freezing temperatures, might go unrecognized and untreated. The sequelae of unrecognized and untreated trench foot can

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