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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...
Autor principal: | Delgado Cortez, Orlando |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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