Browsing Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra y el Mar by Subject "HEAT STRESS"

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    • A pilot field evaluation on heat stress in sugarcane workers in Costa Rica: What to do next? 

      Van Wendel de Joode, Berendina; Wesseling Hoogervors, Catharina; Crowe, Jennifer (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2009)
      Climate change is producing major impacts including increasing temperatures in tropical countries, like Costa Rica, where the sugarcane industry employs thousands of workers who are exposed to extreme heat. Objectives: ...

    • Heat exposure in sugarcane harvesters in Costa Rica 

      Crowe, Jennifer; Wesseling, Catharina; Román Solano, Bryan; Pinto Umaña, Manfred; Robles Ramírez, Andrés; Kjellstrom, Tord; Morales, David; Nilsson, Maria (Wiley Periodicals, 2013)
      Background Occupational heat stress is a major concern in sugarcane production and has been hypothesized as a causal factor of a chronic kidney disease epidemic in Central America. This study described working conditions ...

    • Heat exposure in sugarcane workers in Costa Rica during the non-harvest season 

      Crowe, Jennifer; Moya-Bonilla, José Manuel; Román-Solano, Bryan; Robles-Ramírez, Andrés (Global Health Action, 2010)
      This observational pilot study was carried out at three sugarcane companies in Costa Rica. Its main objective was to determine the potential for heat stress conditions for workers in one sugarcane-growing region in Costa ...