Determinants of dermal exposure among Nicaraguan subsistence farmers during pesticide applications with backpack sprayers

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-24

  Blanco, Luis E ^a,b   Aragón, Aurora ^a,b   Lundberg, Ingvar ^b,c   Lidén, Carola ^d   Wesseling, Catharina ^b,e   Nise, Gun ^b  

^a National Autonomous University of Nicaragua   (Nicaragua)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM COUNTY COUNCIL   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Dermal exposure; Developing countries; Exposure assessment; Exposure determinants; Fluorescent tracer; Pesticide; Subsistence farmers

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERSONNEL TRAINING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPRAYING; VIDEO RECORDING; AGRICULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; METAL DRAWING; SURVEYS;

DETERMINANTS; FARMERS; MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELING; WORKSITE;

PESTICIDES;

PESTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NICARAGUA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SKIN DISEASE; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRAINING; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGRICULTURE; CLOTHING; HUMANS; HYGIENE; NICARAGUA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PILOT PROJECTS; RURAL HEALTH; SKIN; WORKPLACE;

DERMAL EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; EXPOSURE DETERMINANTS; FLUORESCENT TRACERS; SUBSISTENCE FARMERS;

EID: 14944370496     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/meh084     Document Type: Article

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