Assessment of long-term and recent pesticide exposure among rural school children in Nicaragua

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-125

  Rodríguez, Teresa ^a   Van Wendel De Joode, Berna ^b   Lindh, Christian H ^c   Rojas, Marianela ^b   Lundberg, Ingvar ^d   Wesseling, Catharina ^b  

^a Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua   (Nicaragua)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPYRIFOS; CREATININE; METHAMIDOPHOS; PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NICARAGUA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; URINALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE; CHILD; CHLORPYRIFOS; CREATININE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NICARAGUA; ORGANOTHIOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PARENTS; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; PESTICIDES; RURAL POPULATION; TIME;

EID: 84855667815     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.062539     Document Type: Article

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