Pesticide use in banana and plantain production and risk perception among local actors in Talamanca, Costa Rica

Environmental Research

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 708-717

  Barraza, Douglas ^a,b   Jansen, Kees ^b   van Wendel de Joode, Berna ^a   Wesseling, Catharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agricultural worker; Banana and plantain; Costa Rica; Indigenous population; Pesticide risk perception

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CHILD HEALTH; FRUIT PRODUCTION; HEALTH RISK; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MONOCULTURE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BANANA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; DATA EXTRACTION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEADACHE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MONOCULTURE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATIENT SAFETY; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PLANTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; CHILD; COSTA RICA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PLANTAGO; PUBLIC OPINION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

COSTA RICA; LIMON; TALAMANCA;

EID: 79958245099     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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