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