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Check the resources below to learn more about vehicular heatstroke and other childhood health concerns.
Non Profits that are actively working on minimizing the incidence of vehicular heatstroke
Memory Distortions
Memory distortion: an adaptive perspective
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3183109/
Is the Dissociative Experiences Scale able to identify detachment and compartmentalization symptoms? Factor structure of the Dissociative Experiences Scale in a large sample of psychiatric and non-psychiatric subjects
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4902245/pdf/ndt-12-1295.pdf
Imagination inflation: Imagining a childhood event inflates confidence that it occurred
http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1996-04621-009
Exploring the role of repetition and sensory elaboration in the imagination inflation effect
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03196103
Creating bizarre false memories through imagination
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03194942
Autopilot, Mind Wandering, and the Out of the Loop Performance Problem
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2017.00541/full
How Does the Mind Work? Insights from Biology
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771937/pdf/nihms106496.pdf
False memories in highly superior autobiographical memory individuals
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2013/11/12/1314373110.full.pdf
Scientific Literature on Vehicular Heatstroke
Heat related deaths to young children in parked cars: an analysis of 171 fatalities in the United States, 1995–2002
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730172/
Children left unattended in parked vehicles: a focus on recent Italian cases and a review of literature
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4226205/
Hyperthermia deaths among children in parked vehicles: an analysis of 231 fatalities in the United States, 1999-2007.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12024-010-9149-x
United States pedestrian fatality rates by vehicle type
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730245/pdf/v011p00232.pdf
Scientific Literature on Car Seats
Child Passenger Safety Laws in the United States, 1978–2010: Policy Diffusion in the Absence of Strong Federal Intervention
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899584/
https://saferide4kids.com/car-seat-laws-by-state/
Car Seat Inspection Among Children Older Than Three:
Using Data to Drive Practice in Child Passenger Safety
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4551077/pdf/nihms679165.pdf
The role of the African-American physician in reducing traffic-related injury and death among African Americans: consensus report of the National Medical Association.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2594128/
Effects of booster seat laws on injury risk among children in crashes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23137094
Where children sit in motor vehicles: a comparison of selected European and American cities
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730365/pdf/v004p00098.pdf
Scientific Literature on SIDS
SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Updated 2016 Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2016/10/20/peds.2016-2938
Factors Associated With Choice of Infant Sleep Position
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2017/08/17/peds.2017-0596