TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collins,K.J.
AU  - Roberts,D.F.
TI  - Capacity for work in the tropics
T2  - Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series
SN  - 9780511666094 (ebook)
AV  - QP309 .C36 1988
U1  - 612/.042/0913 19
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Work
KW  - Physiological aspects
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Tropical medicine
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Effect of environment on
KW  - Tropics
KW  - Malnutrition
KW  - Complications
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Proceedings of a meeting held at the CIBA Foundation in London, Dec. 13-14, 1984
N2  - Working capacity is the physiological key to understanding man's ability, in technically less advanced communities, to exploit his environment, and hence to understanding his role in the ecological balance. In this volume the knowledge of working capacity in tropical populations is reviewed in a series of illustrative papers. Topics cover the measurement of working capacity in populations: the functional consequences of malnutrition; growth, size and muscular efficiency; ethnic differences in working capacity; energy; expenditure and endemic disease; and energy flow in tropical ecosystems. These papers and their ensuing discussions lead to a series of recommendations on studies to be incorporated in the Decade of the Tropics research programme of the International Union of Biological Sciences
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511666094
ER  -