Cited by 617Climate Change and Health ImpactsThermoregulation and physiological responsesOccupational Health and Global Justice

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Heat, Human Performance, and Occupational Health: A Key Issue for the Assessment of Global Climate Change Impacts

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Kjellstrom, Tord, Briggs, David, Freyberg, Chris, Lemke, Bruno, Otto, Matthias, Hyatt, Olivia·2016·Annual Review of Public Health

Abstract

Ambient heat exposure is a well-known health hazard, which reduces human performance and work capacity at heat levels already common in tropical and subtropical areas. Various health problems have been reported. Increasing heat exposure during the hottest seasons of each year is a key feature of global climate change. Heat exhaustion and reduced human performance are often overlooked in climate change health impact analysis. Later this century, many among the four billion people who live in hot areas worldwide will experience significantly reduced work capacity owing to climate change. In some areas, 30-40% of annual daylight hours will become too hot for work to be carried out. The social and economic impacts will be considerable, with global gross domestic product (GDP) losses greater than 20% by 2100. The analysis to date is piecemeal. More analysis of climate change-related occupational health impact assessments is greatly needed.

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Crossref · 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032315-021740

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    The mixture of jobs outdoors/indoors and at different work intensities stayed the same over the study period.

    “Analysis was based on the assumptions that the mixture of jobs outdoors/indoors and at different work intensities stayed the same and that gross domestic product (GDP) increased over the study period .”
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    Gross domestic product increased over the study period.

    “Analysis was based on the assumptions that the mixture of jobs outdoors/indoors and at different work intensities stayed the same and that gross domestic product (GDP) increased over the study period .”
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    Agricultural workers in low-income tropical countries may be assumed to be working in full sun during hotter periods of the day.

    “Agricultural workers in these countries may be assumed to be working in full sun during hotter periods of the day (e.g., afternoon), though they may seek shelter in the shade when possible.”
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    No change in heat adaptation takes place.

    “assuming that no change in heat adaptation takes place”
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    The application of the physiological basis for reduction in human performance and work capacity in assessments of climate change impacts has so far been piecemeal.

    “The physiological basis for the reduction in human performance and work capacity is well known, but the application in assessments of climate change impacts has, so far, been piecemeal.”
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Authors
Kjellstrom, T., Briggs, D., Freyberg, C., Lemke, B., Otto, M., & Hyatt, O.
Affiliations
  • University College London (GB)
  • Imperial College London (GB)
  • Ruby Coast Research Centre, Mapua, 7005, New Zealand
  • Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NZ)
Venue
Annual Review of Public Health
Published
2016-03-18
Volume
37
Issue
1
Pages
97-112
ISSN
  • 0163-7525 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2093
OpenAlex
W2244217450
Cited by
617
References
85
Citations by year
2026: 81 · 2025: 89 · 2024: 60 · 2023: 68 · 2022: 64 · 2021: 79 · 2020: 56 · 2019: 56 · 2018: 44 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 4
FWCI
1.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Annual Review of Public Health (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • University of East Anglia
  • Lunds Universitet
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Thermoregulation and physiological responses
  • Social Sciences › Health › Occupational Health and Global Justice
Keywords
heat exposure, occupational health, human performance, work capacity, health impacts of climate change, heat exhaustion, climate impact assessment, GDP loss
MeSH terms
Hot Temperature, Humans, Occupational Health, Workplace, Heat Stress Disorders, Climate Change, Gross Domestic Product

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