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Extreme heat and work injuries in Kuwait’s hot summers

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  • Barrak Alahmad Environmental Health Department, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Public Health, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait City, Kuwait PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ali Al-Hemoud Environment and Life Sciences Research Center, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Safat, Kuwait PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mohammed Al-Bouwarthan Department of Environmental Health, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Haitham Khraishah Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mohamed Kamel Occupational Health Administration, Ministry of Health, Kuwait City, Kuwait PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Qassem Akrouf Occupational Health Administration, Ministry of Health, Kuwait City, Kuwait PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • David H Wegman Environmental Health Department, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA La Isla Network, District of Columbia, Washington, DC, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Aaron S Bernstein Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Pediatrics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Petros Koutrakis Environmental Health Department, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Barrak Alahmad, Environmental Health Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; BALAHMAD{at}HSPH.HARVARD.EDU
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Alahmad B, Al-Hemoud A, Al-Bouwarthan M, et al
Extreme heat and work injuries in Kuwait’s hot summers
Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2023;80:347-352.

Publication history

  • Received October 13, 2022
  • Accepted March 27, 2023
  • First published April 17, 2023.
Online issue publication 
October 18, 2023

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