Heat exposure in sugarcane harvesters in Costa Rica

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1157-1164

  Crowe, Jennifer ^a   Wesseling, Catharina ^a   Solano, Bryan Román ^b   Umaña, Manfred Pinto ^b   Ramírez, Andrés Robles ^b   Kjellstrom, Tord ^c   Morales, David ^a   Nilsson, Maria ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agricultural worker; Central America; Exposure; Heat stress; Sugarcane

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; EXPOSURE; HEAT; HEAT INJURY; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STATISTICS; SUGARCANE; TIME;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CENTRAL AMERICA; EXPOSURE; HEAT STRESS; SUGARCANE;

AGRICULTURE; COSTA RICA; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883457774     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22204     Document Type: Article

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