Banning highly hazardous pesticides saves the lives of young people, particularly females, in low- and middle-income countries

Pesticide self-poisoning is a public health problem mostly affecting low- and middle-income countries. In Sri Lanka, India and China suicide rates have reduced among young people, particularly females, following highly hazardous pesticides (HHP) bans. This success story requires attention to encoura...

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Autores principales: Schölin, Lisa, Knipe, Duleeka, Bandara, Piumee, Eddleston, Michael, Sethi, Aastha
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10647157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37968702
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17071-y
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description Pesticide self-poisoning is a public health problem mostly affecting low- and middle-income countries. In Sri Lanka, India and China suicide rates have reduced among young people, particularly females, following highly hazardous pesticides (HHP) bans. This success story requires attention to encourage more research on differential effects of HHP bans.
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spelling pubmed-106471572023-11-15 Banning highly hazardous pesticides saves the lives of young people, particularly females, in low- and middle-income countries Schölin, Lisa Knipe, Duleeka Bandara, Piumee Eddleston, Michael Sethi, Aastha BMC Public Health Comment Pesticide self-poisoning is a public health problem mostly affecting low- and middle-income countries. In Sri Lanka, India and China suicide rates have reduced among young people, particularly females, following highly hazardous pesticides (HHP) bans. This success story requires attention to encourage more research on differential effects of HHP bans. BioMed Central 2023-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10647157/ /pubmed/37968702 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17071-y Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Eddleston, Michael
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Banning highly hazardous pesticides saves the lives of young people, particularly females, in low- and middle-income countries
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title_short Banning highly hazardous pesticides saves the lives of young people, particularly females, in low- and middle-income countries
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10647157/
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