Incidence of acute pesticide poisonings in Nicaragua: a public health concern

Corriols, Marianela; Marín, Jesús Hormigo; Berroteran, Jacqueline; Lozano, Luz Marina; Lundberg, Ingvar

doi:10.1136/oem.2008.040840

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“…8 Occupational health services are few with no options for the large informal economy. Occupational hazards such as exposure to toxic pesticides, with associated high intoxication rates, 21,22,29 and carcinogenic substances 26,30 have been documented. Basic labor, health, and social security legislation and ILO conventions have been ratified in all Central American countries.…”

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Social Determinants of Workers' Health in Central America

Aragón

Partanen²,

Felknor³

et al. 2011

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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This communication summarizes the available data on work-related determinants of health in Central America. The Central American working population is young and moving from agriculture toward industry and services. Ethnicity, gender, migration, subemployment and precarious work, informality, rural conditions, low-level educational, poverty, ubiquitous worksite health hazards, insufficient occupational health services, low labor inspection density, and weak unions define the constellation of social determinants of workers' health in Central America. Data are, however, scanty both for hazards and work-related illnesses and injuries. Governments and industries have the responsibility of opening decent work opportunities, especially for those facing multiple inequalities in social determinants of health. A first step would be the ratification and implementation of the ILO Convention (187) on occupational safety and health by the seven national governments of the region.

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“…21 Corriols et al 22 reported an extremely high incidence (2.3/100 persons over 15 years of age) in Nicaragua in 2000; 90% were occupationally related. The annual incidence was 3.9/100 in men and 0.8/100 in women; in persons in agriculture, it was 6.7/100.…”

Section: Occupational Hazardsmentioning

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Social Determinants of Workers' Health in Central America

Aragón

Partanen²,

Felknor³

et al. 2011

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

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“…Farmers continue to use chemical pesticides, because alternative control measures that are simple and inexpensive to implement have not been fully developed or not fully acknowledged. This leads to exacerbated problems of resistance, environmental pollution, degradation of important resources such as natural enemies, and signiÞcant hazards to human health (Corriols et al 2009). …”

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Population Density and Killing Capacity by Predators of Eggs and Larvae of the Diamondback Moth in Nicaragua

Miranda¹,

Bylund²,

Grönberg³

et al. 2011

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“…Other groups developed insecticides that could attach to leaves more tightly to decrease the necessary amount. Nevertheless, in spite of these efforts to decrease the amount of insecticides and herbicides, farm fields where crops cannot be grown anymore are rapidly increasing, and this is becoming a serious problem in many countries especially in Asia, Africa, and South America Advances in Bioremediation and Phytoremediation 4 [21][22][23]. To make matters worse, a huge amount of POP stock produced before the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants still exist, and POPs are still used in several areas in Asia.…”

Section: Agricultural Chemicalsmentioning

confidence: 99%