The Appropriation of Product Design as Solution to Minimise Risk of Exertional Heat Illness among Marathon Runners

• Main Authors: Mohd Najib, Abdullah Sani, Azrul Amri, Amran, Muhammad Jameel, Mohamed Kamil, Hanim, Romainoor, Louis Ringah, Kanyan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Horizon Research Publishing 2020
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); NX Arts in general
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/33656/1/The%20Appropriation%20of%20Product%20Design%20as%20Solution%20to%20Minimise%20Risk%20of%20Exertional%20Heat%20Illness%20among%20%20%20Marathon%20Runners.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/33656/; http://www.hrpub.org/journals/jour_archive.php?id=99

The intensity of environmental heat stress during a marathon race increases the runner’s metabolic heat production. Based on series of participatory studies and interview sessions with 100 respondents among runners, the contributing factors to this homeos...