Health hazards and adoption of personal protective equipment during cotton harvesting in Pakistan

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 598, Issue , 2017, Pages 1058-1064

  Bakhsh, Khuda ^a   Ahmad, Nameem ^b   Tabasum, Shanza ^a   Hassan, Sarfraz ^c   Hassan, Ishtiaq ^d  

^a Department of Environmental Sciences   (Pakistan)

^b Public Health Engineering Department   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^d Directorate of Agriculture (Farm Training and Adoptive Research)   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Contaminants; Cotton pickers; Health cost; Pakistan; PPE

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; COTTON; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HARVESTING; HEALTH; IMPURITIES; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING;

COTTON HARVESTING; COTTON PICKERS; HEALTH COSTS; HEALTH FACILITIES; LOGIT MODELING; PAKISTAN; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; TRAINING AND EDUCATION;

HEALTH HAZARDS;

COTTON; DEVELOPING WORLD; HARVESTING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COTTON; COUGHING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIZZINESS; DRY THROAT; DYSPNEA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HARVESTING; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INSOMNIA; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PAKISTAN; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN DISEASE; AGRICULTURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GOSSYPIUM; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN];

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

AGRICULTURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FARMERS; FEMALE; GOSSYPIUM; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAKISTAN; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 85018444085     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.043     Document Type: Article

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