Pilot study on agricultural pesticide poisoning in Burkina Faso

Interdisciplinary Toxicology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 185-191

  Toe, Adama M ^a   Ouedraogo, Mustapha ^b   Ouedraogo, Richard ^a,b   Ilboudo, Sylvain ^a,b   Guissou, Pierre I ^a,b  

^a Public Health Research Institute for Health Sciences   (Burkina Faso)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

Burkina Faso; Farmers; Pesticides; Poisoning

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDE; FUNGICIDE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDE POISONING; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; CHEMICAL PEST CONTROL; CHEMICAL SAFETY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 84898484029     PISSN: 13376853     EISSN: 13379569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/intox-2013-0027     Document Type: Article

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