Pesticides at work and at home: Exposure of migrant farmworkers

Lancet

Volumn 362, Issue 9400, 2003, Pages 2021-

  Arcury, Thomas A ^a   Quandt, Sara A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBARIL; CHLORPYRIFOS; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; OXYFLUORFEN; PESTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BIOSAFETY; BIRTH DEFECT; CANCER RISK; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; JUSTICE; MIGRANT WORKER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SHORT SURVEY; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0347995099     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)15027-1     Document Type: Short Survey

References (3)

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3. Lindell AR, Bernier GM Jr, Burns C, Rogers B, Simpson C, Brown AE. National pesticide competency guidelines for medical and nursing education: a project of the National Strategies for Health Care Providers: pesticide initiative, Washington: National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, 2003.