Maintaining health, comfort and productivity in heat waves

Global Health Action

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Parsons, Ken ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comfort; Health; Heat physiology; Heat waves; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866178284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.2057     Document Type: Article

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