Bans of WHO Class I Pesticides in Bangladesh—suicide prevention without hampering agricultural output
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Bans of WHO Class I Pesticides in Bangladesh—suicide prevention without hampering agricultural output
Background Pesticide self-poisoning is a major problem in Bangladesh. Over the past 20-years, the Bangladesh government has introduced pesticide legislation and banned highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) from agricultural use. We aimed to assess the impacts of pesticide bans on suicide and on agricultural production. Methods We obtained data on unnatural deaths from the Statistics Division of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx157