Economic burden of illness from pesticide poisonings in highland Ecuador
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Economic burden of illness from pesticide poisonings in highland Ecuador.
Active surveillance of acute pesticide poisonings in a potato-growing region of highland Ecuador during 1991-1992 uncovered a rate of 171/100,000, due predominantly to occupational exposures to organophosphate and carbamate pesticides. Occupational exposure among agricultural workers was the most common reason for poisoning (32 male workers and 1 female worker, out of a total of 50 cases). Of t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1020-4989
DOI: 10.1590/s1020-49892000000800007