An urgent need to restrict access to pesticides based on human lethality

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Miller, Matthew ^a   Bhalla, Kavi ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHOATE; ENDOSULFAN; FENTHION; GLYPHOSATE; PARAQUAT; PESTICIDE; AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL;

ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LD 50; LETHALITY; RISK REDUCTION; SELF POISONING; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; INTOXICATION; MORTALITY; NOTE; RAT; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

AGROCHEMICALS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PESTICIDES; POISONING; RATS; SUICIDE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 78149402110     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000358     Document Type: Article

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