Study of poisoning trends in north India – A perspective in relation to world statistics

Singh, Satinder; Aggarwal, Akash Deep; Oberoi, S.S.; Aggarwal, K K; Thind, A. S.; Bhullar, Diwan S.; Walia, Didar Singh; Chahal, Preetinder Singh

doi:10.1016/j.jflm.2012.04.034

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“…In the previous study prevalence of poisoning was 17%. 6 From the above prevalence rate (17%) with precision of 5% and including non-response sample size of 244 was calculated. From the above calculated sample size participants were selected from Kancheepuram distrct (Mamandur, Vadapathy, Meiyur, S. Mambakkam, Siripinaiyur, Thiruvanthavur, Kodithandalam, Natrajapuram, Samathuvapuram respective villages) during 2016-17 by Probability Proportional to Size.…”

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Prevalence of accidents and poisoning due to household hazardous materials in a rural area of Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu

Karunakaran

Logaraj

Ramraj

2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Over the last few decades hazardous materials have become a common household item in many rural areas of the developing world. Due to their easy availability, commercialization, accessibility and lack of awareness it has become a significant health problem globally. The objective of the study is to estimate the prevalence of household hazardous material accidents and poisoning and the factors associated with household hazardous accidents and poisoning among the rural population.Methods: A cross sectional study was done among the households located in rural fields practice area tertiary care hospital, with the sample size of 244 households by probability proportion sampling method. House to house interview was conducted using a predesigned, pre-tested questionnaire and household hazardous accidents and poisoning was assessed.Results: The overall prevalence of household hazardous accidents was 2.1% among the population. Among them 70% were less than 10 years of age followed by 10 to 20 years. The prevalence of household hazardous accident and poisoning was found to be positively associated with the factors like age <10 years, easy accessibility and storage in the open self.Conclusions: Regular assessment for household hazardous accident and poisoning should be carried out at the community level to find the exact burden. Utilization of this information, especially by the stakeholders and policy makers in the regional health sectors, can avert the problematic health situation.

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Prevalence of accidents and poisoning due to household hazardous materials in a rural area of Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu

Karunakaran

Logaraj

Ramraj

2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…A forensic study of organophosphorous poisonings in Ahmedabad indicates that 47.7 percent of deaths were 'urban' (Zariwala et al, 2011). Similarly, a hospital study of deaths in the state of Punjab reports that urban populations constituted 45.5 percent of deaths (Singh et al, 2013). 1 Occupational categories in pesticide suicide statistics have recently been unsettled, highlighting the erasure of difference and the problems that emerge with generalization (Kennedy and King, 2014).…”

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“…Notes 1. Zariwala et al (2011) and Singh et al (2013) both define urban/rural as 'residential areas'. 2.…”

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Suicide at a distance

Balayannis¹,

Cook

2015

Progress in Human Geography

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Knowledge of suicide is made through violent epistemologies that sever self-destruction from space, time, and place. As an inherently incomprehensible issue, efforts to make sense of suicide through abstraction have the paradoxical effect of inhibiting understanding. This paper argues that the incoherences characteristic of suicide are not an obstacle for knowing, but rather a cause to accept knowledge that is partial and indirect. Thinking with assemblage, this paper develops a relational conceptualization of distance to interrogate the knowledge that shapes pesticide suicide in India; 'distancing-through-engagement' brings to light the contradictions and obscured power relations through which understandings of suicide are made.

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“…Morbidity and mortality attributable to these substances vary from country to country, depending on many variables such as the level of socioeconomic development, accessibility to these chemicals, and the importance of the agricultural sector. Fatalities involving pesticides are a consequence of accidents, self-injury or more rarely homicides, and range from less than 1% of deaths from poisoning in EU countries [1,2] to up to 71% of all violent deaths in the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia [3][4][5]. In all these cases chemical analysis to investigate the poison involved is mandatory, and the forensic laboratory is facing a challenge because in most cases there is no information on what the substance involved was.…”

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Validated analytical methodology for the simultaneous determination of a wide range of pesticides in human blood using GC–MS/MS and LC–ESI/MS/MS and its application in two poisoning cases

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Pesticides are frequently responsible for human poisoning and often the information on the involved substance is lacking. The great variety of pesticides that could be responsible for intoxication makes necessary the development of powerful and versatile analytical methodologies, which allows the identification of the unknown toxic substance. Here we developed a methodology for simultaneous identification and quantification in human blood of 109 highly toxic pesticides. The application of this analytical scheme would help in minimizing the cost of this type of chemical identification, maximizing the chances of identifying the pesticide involved. In the methodology that we present here, we use a liquid-liquid extraction, followed by one single purification step, and quantitation of analytes by a combination of liquid and gas chromatography, both coupled to triple quadrupole mass spectrometry, which is operated in the mode of multiple reaction monitoring. The methodology has been fully validated, and its applicability has been demonstrated in two recent cases involving one self-poisoning fatality and one non-fatal homicidal attempt.

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Study of poisoning trends in north India – A perspective in relation to world statistics

Cited by 43 publications

References 13 publications

Prevalence of accidents and poisoning due to household hazardous materials in a rural area of Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu

Prevalence of accidents and poisoning due to household hazardous materials in a rural area of Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu

Suicide at a distance

Validated analytical methodology for the simultaneous determination of a wide range of pesticides in human blood using GC–MS/MS and LC–ESI/MS/MS and its application in two poisoning cases

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