Heat strain while wearing pesticide protective clothing in hot environments: Effects of textile physical properties and ambient humidity

Editorial: Acute and long-term health issues of occupational exposure to heat and high physical loads

“…These issues are magnified in populations in the informal sector where individuals often juggle more than one job ( Venugopal et al, 2021 ). Even for those in the formal sector, professions including fire fighters, miners, athletes, agricultural laborers, and soldiers, can be in situations where they are quite literally pushing their bodies’ endurance and resistance to the maximum ( Lazaro and Momayez, 2021 ; Carballo-Leyenda et al, 2022 ; Kim and Lee, 2023 ). Occupational heat exposure is associated with a number of undesirable health outcomes ranging from headache and nausea to more severe outcomes such as cardiovascular failure ( Ebi et al, 2021 ) or acute kidney injury ( Kupferman et al, 2018 ; Wesseling et al, 2020 ).…”