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Occupational heat stress induced health impacts: A cross-sectional study from South Indian working population
| العنوان: | Occupational heat stress induced health impacts: A cross-sectional study from South Indian working population |
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| المؤلفون: | Vidhya Venugopal, P.K. Latha, Rekha Shanmugam, Manikandan Krishnamoorthy, Priscilla Johnson |
| المصدر: | Advances in Climate Change Research, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 31-39 (2020) |
| بيانات النشر: | KeAi Communications Co., Ltd., 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Meteorology. Climatology LCC:Social sciences (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Climate change, Occupational heat stress, Physiological heat strain, Renal issues, Dehydration, Workload, Meteorology. Climatology, QC851-999, Social sciences (General), H1-99 |
| الوصف: | Rising temperature and heat stress risks in the changing climate scenario might potentially affect workers globally, especially the ones with strenuous workload in tropical settings. We used a cross-sectional study design to profile the heat exposures of ∼1900 workers from eight industrial sectors using a QuesTemp Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) monitor, quantified select heat-strain indicators viz., rise in Core Body Temperature, Sweat Rate, and Urine Specific Gravity and evaluated the perceived health impacts of heat stress using a structured questionnaire. Heat exposures (average WBGT: 30.1 ± 2.6 °C) exceeded the Threshold Limit Value for 67% workers and was positively associated with the rise in Core Body Temperature >1 °C in 13% and elevated Urine Specific Gravity >1.020 in 9% workers. Heat-related health concerns were reported by 86% workers, and the heat-exposed workers had 2.3 times higher odds of adverse health outcomes compared to unexposed workers (p |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1674-9278 |
| Relation: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674927820300289; https://doaj.org/toc/1674-9278 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.accre.2020.05.009 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/1a0e4cb76ee94558a55e04e6cd298233 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.1a0e4cb76ee94558a55e04e6cd298233 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 16749278 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.accre.2020.05.009 |