The last Summer Olympics? Climate change, health, and work outdoors

The last Summer Olympics? Climate change, health, and work outdoors

Perhaps the most pernicious of these impacts is the growing expansion in season and geography of outdoor conditions (or unprotected indoor spaces) in which heavy work is no longer safe. Because more than half the planet's workforce works outdoors, primarily in construction and agriculture, soci...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet (British edition) 2016-08, Vol.388 (10045), p.642-644
Hauptverfasser: Smith, Kirk R, Woodward, Alistair, Lemke, Bruno, Otto, Matthias, Chang, Cindy J, Mance, Anna A, Balmes, John, Kjellstrom, Tord
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Agriculture
Climate Change
Construction Industry
Endurance
Geography
Heat
Heat Stress Disorders - etiology
Hot Temperature
Humans
Humidity
Internal Medicine
Labor productivity
Olympic games
Outdoors
Public health
Running
Seasons
Sports
Summer
Uncertainty
Work
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Zusammenfassung:Perhaps the most pernicious of these impacts is the growing expansion in season and geography of outdoor conditions (or unprotected indoor spaces) in which heavy work is no longer safe. Because more than half the planet's workforce works outdoors, primarily in construction and agriculture, society faces an increasingly serious trade-off between population health and labour productivity.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31335-6