Wearing long pants while working outdoors in the tropics does not yield higher body temperatures

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 70-75

  Sinclair, Wade H ^a   Brownsberger, Jarrod C ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body mass changes; Dehydration; Heat stress; Workload practices

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLOTHING; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION; TIME; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CLOTHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXERTION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84873674262     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1753-6405.12013     Document Type: Article

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