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Heat stress assessment among workers in a Nicaraguan sugarcane farm

BACKGROUND: Heat illness is a major cause of preventable morbidity worldwide. Workers exposed to intense heat can become unable to activate compensation mechanisms, putting their health at risk. Heat stress also has a direct impact on production by causing poor task performance and it increases the...

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Autor principal: Delgado Cortez, Orlando
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CoAction Publishing 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2799323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20052378
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v2i0.2069