Is DDT use a public health problem in Mexico?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Is DDT use a public health problem in Mexico?
We review the potential impact of DDT on public health in Mexico. DDT production and consumption patterns in Mexico during the last 20 years are described and compared with those in the United States. In spite of the restrictions on DDT use in antimalaria campaigns in Mexico, use of DDT is still higher than in other Latin American countries. We analyzed information from published studies to det...
متن کاملIs Obesity a Public Health Problem?
It is often claimed that there is an obesity epidemic in affluent countries, and that obesity is one of the most serious public health problems in the developed world. I will argue that obesity is not an ‘epidemic’ in any useful sense of the word, and that classifying it as a public health problem requires us to make fairly controversial moral and empirical assumptions. While epidemiological ev...
متن کاملIs Ligula intestinalis Really a Probable Threat for Public Health?
This article has no abstract.
متن کاملNeurocysticercosis, a Persisting Health Problem in Mexico
BACKGROUND The ongoing epidemiological transition in Mexico minimizes the relative impact of neurocysticercosis (NC) on public health. However, hard data on the disease frequency are not available. METHODOLOGY All clinical records from patients admitted in the Instituto Nacional de Neurologia y Neurocirugia (INNN) at Mexico City in 1994 and 2004 were revised. The frequencies of hospitalized N...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.104-1469381