Pattern of pesticide storage before pesticide self-poisoning in rural sri lanka: a prospective survey

• At: 2009 FIP Congress in Istanbul (Turkey)
• Type: Poster
• By: MOAHAMED, Fahim (SACTRC, Kandy, Sri Lanka)
• Co-author(s): Konradsen, Fleming (SACTRC, KANDY, Sri Lanka)
  
• Abstract:

  Background: Self-poisoning with pesticides is the most important means of suicide in rural Asia making it a serious public health concern. Pesticide self-poisoning is often impulsive and easy access to highly toxic pesticides in the domestic environment or at community level may present major problem. This study aimed to assess from where..

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