AMBIENT TEMPERATURE AND THE RISK OF THERMOREGULATORY DISORDERS AMONG TRAFFIC POLICE OFFICERS: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

Modern human health and occupational hygiene encounter various challenges as a result of global warming and climate change alongside the growing pressures from urbanization. The World Health Organization classifies climate change as a major environmental threat to human health which international health institutions recognize as the greatest environmental threat to health in this century. Higher temperatures combined with rising solar radiation along with more atmospheric dust and dangerous gases create dangerous health threats.