Skin disease among farmers using wastewater in rice cultivation in Nam Dinh, Vietnam

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 51-58

  Trang, Do Thuy ^a,b   Van Der Hoek, Wim ^c   Tuan, Nguyen Dang ^a   Cam, Phung Dac ^a   Viet, Vu Huu ^d   Luu, Do Duc ^d   Konradsen, Flemming ^e   Dalsgaard, Anders ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^d Nam Dinh Preventive Medicine Centre   (Viet Nam)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Cohort study; Eczema; Skin disease; Vietnam; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CULTIVATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PADDY FIELD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN DISORDER; WASTEWATER;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVATED LAND; ECZEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VIET NAM; WASTE WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; DERMATOMYCOSES; ECZEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORYZA SATIVA; RISK FACTORS; SEWAGE; VIETNAM;

ASIA; EURASIA; NAM DINH; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 36249028742     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01941.x     Document Type: Article

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