Acute health effects associated with nonoccupational pesticide exposure in rural El Salvador

Environmental Research

Volumn 80, Issue 2 I, 1999, Pages 158-164

  Azaroff, Lenore S ^a   Neas, Lucas M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Environmental exposure; Insecticides, organophosphate; Methyl parathion; Rural health

Indexed keywords

METHAMIDOPHOS; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PARAQUAT; PARATHION METHYL;

HEALTH IMPACT; PESTICIDE; RURAL POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; EL SALVADOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAMILY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACRIMATION; LEG CRAMP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; WHEEZING;

EL SALVADOR;

EID: 0033003994     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.1998.3878     Document Type: Conference Paper

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