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Effect of cool roofs on heat stress, productivity and work capacity (P4)
Background:
- 80% of households in the Nouna HDSS comprise subsistence farmers
- The farmers work to their physiological limits in the fields and exert energy attending to their crops
Research objectives:
- To quantify key physiological measurements including blood pressure, physical activity, energy expenditure, sleep quality, core body temperature, bioimpedance and electrical heart activity using gold standard devices in a subset of participants that sleep in cool roof homes against control homes.
- To quantify wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) in a subset of homes with a cool roof vs control homes
Contributing Scientists (in alphabetical order):
Prof. Dr. Dr. Till Bärnighausen (Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University)
Dr. Aditi Bunker (Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University)
Prof. Dr. Hanns-Christian Gunga (Charité Berlin)
PD Dr. Martina Maggioni (Charité Berlin)