Ebola: improving the design of protective clothing for emergency workers allows them to better cope with heat stress and help to contain the epidemic

• Author: Kalev Kuklane; Karin Lundgren Kownacki; Chuansi Gao; Jakob Löndahl; Per-Olof Östergren; Per Becker; Catharina Sternudd; Maria Albin; Erik Swietlicki; Lennart Olsson; Kenneth M Persson; Tahir Taj; Ebba Malmqvist; Pernille Gooch; Elisabeth Dalholm Hornyánszky; Johanna Alkan Olsson; Tord Kjellström
• Department/s: Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology; Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies; Nuclear physics; Social Medicine and Global Health; Centre for Societal Resilience; Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety; LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies); Department of Architecture and Built Environment; Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University; Division of Water Resources Engineering; Human Ecology; Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC); Centre for Work, Technology and Social Change (WTS); EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health; MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Pages: 258-261
• Publication/Series: Annals of Occupational Hygiene
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 2
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• Links: http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/annhyg/mev003
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Topic: Environmental Health and Occupational Health
• Keywords: protective clothing heat stress exposure estimation health services
• Status: Published
• Research group: Social Medicine and Global Health; Thermal Environment Laboratory
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1475-3162