Suicide and pesticide use among pesticide applicators and their spouses in the Agricultural Health Study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1610-1615

  Beard, John D ^a   Umbach, David M ^b   Hoppin, Jane A ^c   Richards, Marie ^d   Alavanja, Michael C R ^e   Blair, Aaron ^e   Sandler, Dale P ^c   Kamel, Freya ^c  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Biostatistics Branch   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d WESTAT   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Farmers; Pesticide applicators; Pesticides; Spouses; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ALACHLOR; ALDICARB; ALDRIN; ATRAZINE; BENOMYL; BUTYLATE; CAPTAN; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CARBARIL; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLOROTHALONIL; CYANAZINE; DICAMBA; FUMIGANT; FUNGICIDE; GLYPHOSATE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; MANEB; METALAXYL; METHYL BROMIDE; METOLACHLOR; METRIBUZIN; ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE; PHENOXY HERBICIDE; PYRETHROID; TRIAZINE HERBICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SPOUSE; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IOWA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80455144505     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103413     Document Type: Article

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